About Sarah
Sarah Hope is a clinician who uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She brings ten years of experience and a direct, compassionate style to sessions. Sarah holds an LCPC, which is the Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential.
She works with adults on concerns such as stress, addictions, relationships, parenting, and career challenges. Sarah’s own experience with anxiety and depression shaped her decision to become a counselor.
Background and approach
That background gives her practical insight into panic and racing thoughts, and helps her normalize how hard change can feel. She emphasizes human connection and respect in each meeting, and she often shares parts of her own journey when it helps a person feel understood.
Her clinical work has included drug and alcohol rehabilitation, group and individual counseling with people experiencing homelessness and severe mental illness, and independent practice neurofeedback and talk therapy in the Chicago area. She has worked closely with the LGBTQ community and helped develop local services in that space. In sessions she blends cognitive-behavioral ideas with existential and humanistic perspectives.
That means she helps people notice unhelpful thinking, consider life meaning and values, and practice realistic skills. She aims to build a steady working relationship that balances clear professional boundaries with warmth and occasional humor. Sarah helps younger adults and adults navigate issues like codependency, social anxiety, intimacy problems, sleep concerns, and parenting strain.
She accepts international clients and offers multiple online formats to fit different needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Sarah uses evidence-based techniques that focus on how thoughts, values, and real-life habits shape daily functioning. Cognitive-behavioral strategies help people identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and practice coping skills for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and panic symptoms. These interventions are practical and skill-oriented, with clear steps you can use between sessions.She also draws on existential ideas that invite people to clarify values, purpose, and meaning when facing life transitions or career decisions. That work usually involves reflective conversations about priorities and small experiments to align actions with what matters most. Humanistic validation is woven throughout, offering warm, nonjudgmental listening to help people feel heard as they work through intimacy, relationship, or identity concerns.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video fits deeper conversational work and skill coaching. Phone sessions can be easier during a busy day or when lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text allow for shorter check-ins, quick coping strategies, and ongoing written support between longer sessions. These options add flexibility so therapy can fit school, work, travel, or different time zones.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English