About Sara
Dr. Sara Lewis-Stankus is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, low self-esteem, and career questions. She brings 26 years of experience and a calm, nonjudgmental presence to each session.
Her approach is practical and focused on real change rather than labels or jargon. She invites people to look at the habits and fears that keep them stuck. Sessions often include identifying unhelpful thoughts, practicing new skills, and setting small goals that lead to steady progress.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and isolation. Sara uses a mix of client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, dialectical behavior skills, EMDR, and relationship-focused methods when helpful. She tailors these tools to each person's needs and comfort level rather than applying one fixed method.
The focus is on what helps the person move forward in day-to-day life. Clients can expect straightforward conversations that name the problem, try things out, and adjust plans as needed. She emphasizes practical strategies for coping with strong emotions, improving communication, and repairing or letting go of difficult relationships.
Work on self-esteem and career concerns often includes goal-setting and steady skill building. Dr. Lewis-Stankus practices in West Virginia and offers sessions in English.
She accepts international clients and provides several online session formats to fit busy schedules.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Dr. Lewis-Stankus uses client-centered work to make the session about the person's priorities, helping them feel heard and guiding conversations toward practical next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thought patterns and behaviors and introduces simple exercises to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, for emotion regulation and stress tolerance skills when strong feelings get in the way of moving forward. These approaches are used thoughtfully and combined based on what the person needs; finding the right mix is a collaborative process between therapist and client.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and skill practice, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text messaging supports short updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. Together these options give flexibility to use the method and format that best support each person's goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia, California, Florida
- Languages
- English
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