About Sarah
Sarah Hershey is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) in Ohio with 18 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by offering steady, practical support. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people find manageable steps forward.
She commonly helps with anxiety and stress, depression and mood concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and parenting challenges. She also works with people facing relationship strains, struggles with self-esteem, eating concerns, ADHD-related difficulties, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Sarah listens for the problem behind the problem and helps clients prioritize what matters most right now. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Sarah blends acceptance and commitment strategies with cognitive and emotion-centered work to help people notice patterns and try new behaviors.
Mindfulness practices and client-centered attention are used to build awareness, reduce reactivity, and strengthen coping skills. Clients can expect a collaborative tone. Sarah asks questions, offers tools to practice between sessions, and checks in about what is working.
Her style aims to be practical and compassionate, not overly technical. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and sessions follow state licensing in Ohio.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, even when uncomfortable thoughts or feelings are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) emphasizes understanding emotions in relationships and improving communication to reduce distress.Deciding which approach fits best is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and day-to-day life. That collaborative planning may combine elements from different approaches so the work fits the individual.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer session work, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth or cameras are limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins or real-time processing, and text-based messaging helps maintain momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules while working with licensed professionals from Ohio.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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