About Sarah
Sarah Veale is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Tennessee with 22 years of experience. She offers calm, practical help when stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, or major life changes feel overwhelming. Sarah focuses on clear steps people can use day to day to feel more grounded and get unstuck.
She draws on client-centered principles to build a respectful working relationship. Sessions emphasize listening, practical skill-building, and checking that new strategies are being used between meetings.
Background and approach
Sarah uses cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness exercises to help people notice patterns and change unhelpful habits. Her background includes work in inpatient and residential settings, juvenile detention, outpatient independent practice, and managed care. That variety shaped her ability to work with mood and anxiety symptoms, self-harm behaviors, substance-related concerns, personality issues, and the impact of abuse or neglect.
She has also supported people with family conflict, parenting strain, caregiver stress, and career questions. Sarah favors a collaborative approach that includes education about how problems develop and hands-on practice of coping skills. She helps people set small, achievable goals and tracks progress over time.
The aim is steady improvement in emotional balance and daily functioning. People who choose Sarah can expect a straightforward style, regular feedback, and help transferring skills into real life. She communicates by message a few times per day, Sunday through Friday, and typically responds to messages within 24 hours.
How Sarah's Methods Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on a respectful, listening-first relationship where the therapist follows the client's lead and helps clarify goals. It is useful for people who need acceptance, reflection, and help making sense of feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replace them with more effective ones. It is often used for anxiety, depression, mood concerns, and patterns that interfere with daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sarah will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals and preferences, and she will adjust methods as progress is tracked together.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full face-to-face feel, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing brief reflections between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and to keep momentum while learning new skills.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English