Sarah Ritchea O'Connor

Sarah Ritchea O'Connor is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with ten years of clinical experience. She practices in Texas and aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space for people coming from many backgrounds. She often helps with stress, anxiety, anger, grief, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She uses everyday conversation and practical tools during sessions. That might mean working on thought patterns that cause distress, building skills to manage strong emotions, or looking at attachment patterns that shape close relationships. Sarah adjusts the pace and focus based on each person's goals and circumstances. Her experience includes supporting people through trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, eating and sleeping problems, and caregiver or first responder stress. She also has experience with bipolar disorder and with people in the LGBTQ community. She listens for what matters most to the client and uses that to shape the plan. Sarah blends client-centered listening with approaches like cognitive behavioral work and mindful skills from dialectical behavior strategies. She will talk through options and offer exercises to try between sessions. Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused. To begin, Sarah asks people to pick the Start Therapy button, complete a brief matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability. She explains the steps and helps people match therapy to real-life needs.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

The client-centered approach focuses on attentive listening and meeting people where they are. In practice that means the therapist follows the client's lead, reflects concerns, and helps set goals that feel meaningful. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying small behavior changes or exercises to reduce symptoms and build new habits. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early and current relationships shape expectations and reactions in close relationships and is useful for relationship or intimacy struggles.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss which methods seem likely to help, try them in session, and adjust the plan based on what the client finds useful. The goal is collaboration so the work fits personal needs and values.

The profile does not list specific online formats, so confirm current session options before booking. Many people find that remote sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy routine, reduce travel time, or allow shorter check-ins on a workday. Others appreciate being able to try tools and practice skills between meetings. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT exercises, attachment discussions, and client-centered conversation to an online setting when the format suits the client and therapist.