About Sarah
Sarah Sifran-McClellan is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She also supports those facing relationship and career concerns, addiction, self-esteem struggles, and ADHD. Her work often touches on family-related issues such as blended family challenges, adoption and foster care, and attachment matters.
Sarah uses a straightforward, warm style in sessions. She listens first, then helps people set small, practical goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on skills you can use between meetings and on understanding patterns that keep problems coming back. Her approach blends evidence-informed methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior skills with client-centered and attachment-based ideas. She also uses motivational interviewing when people face addictive behaviors or are unsure about change.
That mix lets her tailor work to each person's needs. Clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through difficult events and family history. Sarah often helps people sort priorities, manage anger, and cope with caregiver stress or body image concerns.
She also addresses more specific issues such as disruptive mood dysregulation and effects of domestic violence. With 14 years of experience, Sarah draws on practical tools and a relational focus to help people build routines, strengthen coping, and move toward clearer goals. She works with adults in Oklahoma and offers multiple online session formats for flexibility.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Attachment-Based Therapy centers on relationships and early bonds and helps people understand how those patterns show up now in relationships and parenting. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and working at the client’s pace so people feel heard while they make choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks concerns into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and build different habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sarah collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. She may combine ideas from attachment, client-centered work, and CBT so sessions stay practical and personally relevant.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people meet face to face without travel, while phone sessions can fit into a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick skill reminders, and ongoing connection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try approaches that feel most comfortable.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, Colorado
- Languages
- English