About Sarah
Sarah Tolley is a counsellor with ten years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She holds NCPS and has supported people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, anger, low self-esteem and depression. Sarah aims to create a calm, approachable space where people can talk honestly about what is worrying them.
She has worked across different settings, including independent practice and educational environments. That background means she is used to short-term focused work and longer conversations where needed.
Background and approach
Sarah has worked with people from varied cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, and with those in the LGBTQ+ community. Sarah uses practical methods to help people build self-belief and manage difficult emotions. She pays attention to how relationships and attachment patterns affect current problems.
Sessions often include talking through triggers, practising new ways of responding, and building coping skills for day-to-day life. People come to her with a wide range of concerns beyond core issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, body image, relationship conflict, addiction, and experiences of domestic violence.
She also supports those dealing with separation, commitment worries, and sexual or relationship preferences that cause distress. Her style is warm and solution-minded. Sarah aims to help people find small, steady changes that add up.
She works alongside each person to set realistic goals and to spot progress as it happens.
How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence present feelings and behaviour. In online work this can mean talking about relationship patterns, noticing triggers, and practising new ways of relating to others in daily life.Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding from the client’s point of view. Sessions give the person space to tell their story while the counsellor reflects back and helps them make sense of their feelings and choices.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thoughts and the behaviours that follow. In remote sessions this often involves setting small practical tasks, trying new approaches between meetings, and reviewing what worked.
Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. The counsellor will talk with the person about their problems, goals and preferences, and suggest ways forward. That discussion guides whether to emphasise attachment work, a client-centred space, CBT tasks, or a blend of methods.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are useful if bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging works for ongoing reflective contact. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy around work, family life and daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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