About Sara
Sara Thompson is a licensed professional counselor in Louisiana with 21 years of experience. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to reduce stress, manage anxiety, and handle grief or major life changes. Sara centers sessions on each person's strengths and story.
She treats trauma and abuse, supports people facing parenting challenges, and helps with depression, anger, and self-esteem concerns. She also works with career stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related struggles.
How Sara works
Her approach combines listening with clear tools. Sara often uses client-centered conversations alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques. She also draws on solution-focused and trauma-focused methods to address specific goals and painful memories.
In a typical session she helps people notice unhelpful thinking, practice breathing and grounding skills, and plan small, realistic steps forward. She encourages practical strategies for communication and managing strong emotions. Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-oriented so progress is easy to track.
Sara has additional focus in abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, caregiving stress, and difficulties after divorce or separation. She is available to work with international clients and conducts sessions in English. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
Payment uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time and varies with location and therapist scheduling.
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What Sara works with
The areas below are the ones Sara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and working at the client’s pace. Online sessions using this approach center the person’s priorities and rely on open conversation to identify next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and acting. In online sessions this often means setting short homework tasks, tracking patterns between meetings, and practicing coping skills between appointments.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. When used online, DBT tools can be taught in small steps and reinforced with short practice exercises between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt methods over time so the work fits real life.
Confirm available session formats before booking so you know how meetings take place. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and make practicing skills between meetings simpler. Licensed professionals can tailor pacing and homework to suit each person’s everyday life.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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