About Sarah
Sarah Bodden-Cheffen offers a warm, person-centered approach grounded in practical therapy methods. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Louisiana with nine years of clinical work. Sarah focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship and intimacy concerns.
Her style centers on listening first and building on each person's strengths. Sessions often use tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also draws on emotionally-focused and acceptance-based work to help people reconnect with values and feelings.
Background and approach
Sarah has experience supporting people facing grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and mood disorders such as bipolar. She also helps with concerns like ADHD, anger, codependency, control issues, and obsessions or compulsions. Practical coping skills and clearer boundaries are common goals in her work.
She has worked with members of the LGBTQ+ community around relationship stress, self-esteem, guilt, and shame. Sarah describes clients as the experts on their own lives and treats therapy as a partnership toward concrete change. Beginning clients can expect straightforward conversation, goal-setting, and at-home tools to practice between sessions.
Sarah encourages small, steady steps and celebrates progress along the way.
How therapy approaches adapt to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that match those values. It helps when someone feels stuck or uncertain about life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) works on spotting patterns of thinking that lead to distress and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the person leads the conversation and the therapist follows their pace.Finding the best approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each client to choose techniques that match the person's needs, goals, and comfort level. That collaborative choice can change over time as goals shift or new challenges appear.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls let people keep face-to-face interaction while staying at home or on the go. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in fits the schedule. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing skill practice, and flexible communication between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days while still using ACT, CBT, or client-centered work to make progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English