About Sarah
Sarah Fagan is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in North Carolina with ten years of counseling experience. She works with people facing fears and phobias, anxiety, depression, grief, and stress. Parents and caregivers may find practical help for parenting strain and family conflict.
Sarah aims to be warm, direct, and approachable in sessions. Her style centers on understanding each person's strengths and values. She blends client-centered work with cognitive-behavioral techniques and acceptance-based practices to help people make real changes.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals, skills you can use between meetings, and steady progress rather than quick fixes. Sarah has worked with trauma, including childhood and domestic abuse, and supports people managing ADHD and autism spectrum concerns. She also helps with relationship and communication problems, addiction-related challenges, caregiver stress, chronic health issues, and life transitions.
Her background includes a range of clinical experiences across settings over the last decade. She adapts therapy to match each person's needs and preferences. That can mean using mindfulness exercises, exploring attachment patterns, or practicing behavioral experiments to reduce avoidance.
Sarah also invites creativity, music, and nature-based ideas when they fit the person's values and goals. People can expect a nonjudgmental space where honesty and respect guide the work. Sarah emphasizes collaboration and practical steps that fit daily life.
If someone wants to explore fears, build coping skills, or make changes that last, she offers steady support through that process.
Practical approaches for online growth
Sarah commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed action even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear, which can help with anxiety, depression, and persistent fears. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people build more supported ways of relating and communicating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going by teaching concrete skills for managing worry, changing unhelpful thinking, and testing new ways of behaving.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sarah will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean mixing approaches over time and adjusting strategies based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep momentum and practice new skills in daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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