About Sarah
Sarah Dixon welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, depressed or stuck after big life changes. She makes space for worries about stress, grief and loss, and issues that affect day-to-day wellbeing. Sarah introduces a calm, respectful presence so people can start where they are.
Sarah has worked in counselling and therapeutic roles for 25 years. Over that time she has helped people with addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, and ongoing struggles such as sleeping problems and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with ADHD, chronic health challenges and career-related stress. Her approach is practical and person-focused. She uses methods drawn from cognitive behavioural ideas, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based thinking and emotionally focused work to suit different problems.
Sessions centre on clear, do-able steps and on noticing what matters most to the client. Sarah is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She offers sessions in English and accepts people from outside the UK.
Formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging to fit different needs. She invites people to take a small first step: complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange a session. Sarah aims to make the process as straightforward as possible so the focus stays on the issues that brought someone to therapy.
Practical therapy approaches and online care
Sarah uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. ACT often helps with anxiety, low mood and the stress of life transitions by shifting attention to what matters most.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches straightforward skills to reduce anxiety and improve sleep and mood. Attachment-based ideas are used to understand relationship patterns and to build more supported ways of relating in close connections.
Finding the right approach tends to be collaborative. Sarah will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and try methods that fit the issue and the individual's style. She adapts the mix of approaches as therapy progresses so the work stays relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family commitments and location.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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