Sarah Bates
Practical, compassionate support for everyday struggles
About Sarah
Sarah Bates is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials and has five years of experience supporting people with emotional and life challenges. She aims to meet clients with respect, sensitivity and compassion.
Sarah encourages people to take the first step toward getting help and acknowledges that reaching out can be difficult. Sarah works with common concerns such as stress and anxiety, depression and bipolar mood challenges, and problems with sleep and eating.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing relationship and intimacy-related difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and addiction-related struggles. Practical day-to-day worries like parenting strain, career pressures and compassion fatigue are part of her practice as well. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth.
Conversations and goals are shaped around each person's needs rather than a fixed script. Sarah explains options clearly and adjusts the pace so people can move forward without feeling rushed. Sessions are intended to be a mix of talking and practical work.
Sarah helps clients notice patterns, try small changes and build coping skills for stress, anger and overwhelm. She also offers coaching-style support for life transitions and career choices. People can expect a warm and steady presence in sessions.
Sarah aims to create a space where worries can be talked through and realistic steps can be planned. She supports LGB T identities and addresses concerns specific to that community when they arise.
What Sarah works with
Sessions & fees
Approaches and online therapy that fit your life
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on understanding thoughts, feelings and behaviours in practical ways. One common approach helps people spot unhelpful patterns in thinking and behaviour, and then try small experiments to change them; this is useful for anxiety, low mood and stress. Another approach concentrates on processing difficult experiences and rebuilding a sense of safety and control after trauma or abuse; it supports people who struggle with intense memories or ongoing distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your worries, goals and preferences and then suggest options to try. Decisions about methods and pace are made collaboratively so the work fits your needs and feels manageable.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow more conversational sessions where body language can be seen, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a shorter break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, ongoing support or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family and travel commitments.
| 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
