Sarah Gensmantel
Calm person-centred counselling with practical support
About Sarah
Sarah Gensmantel works as a counsellor and psychotherapist with a focus on person-centred care. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and brings a calm, practical style to online sessions. She offers both short and longer term counselling online and supports adults and young people through many emotional difficulties.
Sessions combine listening with practical coping strategies you can use between appointments. Sarah keeps the pace gentle and follows what feels right for each person.
Background and approach
Her background is in education, where she specialised in pastoral care and safeguarding. That experience shaped her approach to people in distress and taught her how to respond when someone feels overwhelmed or emotionally unsafe. She has particular experience working with trauma, including childhood trauma.
Sarah also integrates optional holistic practices when useful, such as breathwork, meditation, mindfulness and yoga. These are offered alongside talking therapy and are tailored to individual needs. You do not have to practise them if you prefer to focus solely on conversation.
Her work covers a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, self-esteem and relationship or intimacy-related issues. She is attentive to attachment and abandonment themes and helps people build clearer communication and healthier coping patterns. Sessions aim to help people feel seen, understood and more able to manage life’s challenges.
Sarah listens without judgement and focuses on practical steps and insights that fit each person’s goals and circumstances.
What Sarah works with
How Sarah works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape patterns of relating now. It looks at attachment needs and helps people understand why they react the way they do in close relationships, which can be useful for intimacy and abandonment concerns.Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s own experience at the centre of sessions. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows your agenda, helping you find your own solutions and build confidence over time.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It offers practical exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety, manage mood and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and help you choose what matches your needs, goals and preferences. That decision is collaborative and can change as you progress.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to regular support. Video calls let you have a near face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when you need less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit short check-ins or when typing feels easier. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family or other commitments and to maintain continuity from week to week.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
