About Sara
Sara Markham is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California. She brings three years of clinical experience and a focus on helping people manage anxiety, stress, phobias, and relationship concerns. Sara aims to build a warm, respectful connection so people feel understood from the start.
Sara takes a practical, person-centered approach in sessions. She listens first, then helps clients set clear goals. She uses straightforward tools to address mood, eating and body image concerns, compulsive thoughts, and workplace stress.
Background and approach
Her style mixes talk and action. Conversations explore patterns and feelings. Concrete strategies help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors between sessions.
She also draws on mindfulness to teach simple grounding and breathing practices. Sara pays attention to how past experiences affect current relationships. She helps people notice attachment patterns, improve communication, and build self-confidence.
That can make everyday interactions feel less stressful and more manageable. Parents reading on a phone will find brief, clear guidance in sessions. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
The aim is to make therapy fit into a busy life, not the other way around.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship. The therapist follows the client's lead and helps people name their goals and values, which can be useful for relationship and self-esteem struggles.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete ways to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It often helps with anxiety, phobias, compulsions, and mood concerns by breaking problems into manageable steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sara will discuss options and tailor the mix of strategies to the client's goals, needs, and preferences in a collaborative way. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions stay focused on what helps most.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy routine. Video calls allow natural conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can offer quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These options provide flexibility to continue progress even with a packed schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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