Sarah (she/her) Smith

Sarah Smith is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Connecticut with 14 years of experience. She centers the relationship between therapist and client and believes people bring important strengths to their own healing. Her style is warm and direct, and she often uses humor and practical exercises to help people move forward.

Sarah helps with common concerns such as stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and motivation. She also supports people facing relationship strain, career transitions, parenting challenges, addiction concerns, and coping with life changes. Sessions tend to focus on clear goals and step-by-step progress rather than abstract theory.

Her therapeutic work emphasizes building trust over time. She listens to a person’s story and reviews family history to find patterns that matter now. From there she blends skill building, role play, and problem-solving to test small changes between sessions.

Sarah often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking and on attachment-based ideas to improve connection and boundaries. She uses client-centered and solution-focused methods to tailor sessions to what each person finds most useful. Motivational interviewing is used when people want help increasing commitment to change.

She welcomes the inclusion of faith, religion, or spirituality when clients want to bring those resources into their work. Sarah speaks English and Haitian Creole, and she aims to make the first steps into therapy as straightforward as possible.

How Sarah’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Sarah commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based ideas in her clinical work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to see what helps. Attachment-based approaches look at interpersonal patterns and safety in relationships to improve connection and boundaries.

She also works from a client-centered stance, meaning sessions are guided by each person’s goals and preferences. Finding the right mix of approaches is a joint process. The therapist and client will discuss which methods feel most useful and adjust plans as goals evolve.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the specific session options before booking because formats are not listed here. Online work can make scheduling easier and save travel time, which helps when balancing appointments with work or caregiving. It can also allow for shorter check-ins when needed or sessions that rely less on video if bandwidth or comfort is a concern. Licensed professionals, including therapists using the approaches above, can adapt tools like role play, behavioral experiments, and goal setting to remote sessions so work continues between meetings.