Sarah Johnson
Experienced online counsellor focused on practical change
About Sarah
Sarah Johnson is a counsellor with six years' experience who aims to make therapy straightforward and practical. She holds an NCPS credential and works online with people from the United Kingdom and beyond. She presents as warm and non-judgemental and focuses on helping people take small, steady steps toward change.
Sarah draws on everyday conversation to identify what feels most difficult right now. Sessions are conversational and focused on what matters to the client.
Background and approach
She listens for strengths and helps people try new ways of coping when old strategies are not working. Her practice uses a mix of practical tools and reflective work. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps break down unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s perspective at the heart of the work so goals come from the client rather than being imposed. Mindfulness techniques are offered to help with stress, sleep and repetitive thoughts. Solution-Focused Therapy is used when clients want short-term, goal-directed support to tackle a specific problem.
Sarah adapts these methods to suit each person’s pace and preferences. She has supported people with anxiety, depression, stress, LGBT concerns, self-esteem, addiction-related issues, grief and trauma, among other challenges. Sarah also works with those facing long-term health and caregiving stress and a range of relationship and intimacy-related concerns.
Sessions can be by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. International clients in English are welcome. To begin, a simple matching questionnaire connects people to an appropriate schedule and format.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches you can use online
Sarah commonly blends Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy when working with concerns such as anxiety, depression and stress. CBT looks at how thoughts and behaviours interact and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the centre and focuses on listening and building personal goals.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to help with recurring thoughts, sleep issues and stress management by teaching simple attention and breathing practices. These methods are presented in clear, step-by-step ways so people can try them between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then try methods together. This collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for brief check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and make consistent progress over time.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
