About Sarah
Sarah Bennett is a counsellor with 11 years' experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and relationship concerns. She also supports people dealing with trauma, addiction, eating or sleeping difficulties, parenting strain and other life changes. Sarah works with adults and older teenagers and draws on practical techniques to ease distress.
Her counselling path began in Sydney in 2009, where she trained as a telephone counsellor for Lifeline.
Background and approach
On returning to England she completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and a University Certificate in Counselling at South Cheshire College, validated by Manchester Metropolitan University. She is an accredited member of the National Counselling Society, shown as NCPS.
Early placement work included supporting young people at Reaseheath College and a school counselling role at Brine Leas High School, helping students with coursework stress, bullying and family issues. She has also volunteered with The Dove Service, a bereavement charity in Stoke-on-Trent. Sarah’s practice is grounded in a person-centred approach.
She encourages people to find their own answers while offering gentle guidance. Where helpful, she adds techniques from cognitive behavioural approaches, mindfulness and relaxation. She also trained in hypnotherapy at postgraduate level and will offer it as an option when appropriate.
Sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging as well as face to face in the United Kingdom. Outside work she spends time with family and her dog Leo. Her style is practical, down-to-earth and aimed at helping people build manageable steps forward.
How Sarah’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. The therapist offers acceptance and reflection so people can find their own solutions; this helps with low self-esteem, grief and relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and then practises new ways of thinking and behaving. It is often used for anxiety, depression and stress and includes practical exercises to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sarah will discuss options and adapt methods to fit a person’s goals and preferences. The choice of techniques is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video allows a face-to-face style conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments, while still allowing practical technique teaching and reflective conversation.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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