About Sarah
Sarah Hall is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Missouri with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical, present-focused work to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and life transitions. Her style is warm, straightforward, and respectful, and she aims to help people find clearer next steps and more joy in daily life.
Before moving into counseling she earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of Missouri and a Master of Education from Stephens College.
Background and approach
Over the last decade she has worked in both independent practice and agency settings, which shaped her ability to adapt how she works to fit different needs. That background means she can draw on many approaches when a client needs a different perspective.
Sarah uses practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach skills for managing strong emotions and changing unhelpful thought patterns. She also integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas to help people clarify values and examine relationship patterns. Sessions are collaborative and focused on what the client wants to change now.
She regularly supports people with anxiety, depression, ADHD, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, eating and body image concerns, parenting stress, relationship struggles, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care history, attachment issues, blended family concerns, and family of origin problems. Sarah offers care in English and accepts international clients through online formats.
She balances clinical work with family life and brings a straightforward, relatable approach to sessions.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and clarify what matters most. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and for making values-driven changes in daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors that keep problems going, which works well for anxiety, mood concerns, and coping skills practice. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, making it a good fit for strong emotions and relationship stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to pick strategies that match their goals, preferences, and the issues they want to address. That may mean trying a skill-focused plan for a while, and then shifting to values work or attachment-focused conversation when it feels helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to stay consistent with care. Video calls let people use visual cues and work through exercises together. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick skill practice, brief coaching between sessions, or ongoing tracking of progress. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English