Sarah Mac Farlane
Practical, values-based support for stress and anxiety
About Sarah
Sarah Mac Farlane offers calm, practical support for people struggling with stress, anxiety, low mood and life changes. She writes plainly and listens carefully so clients feel heard. Sarah aims to help people find small, steady steps that fit their life and values.
Sarah holds a BACP accreditation, and has nine years of professional experience in the UK. She draws on a mix of approaches to match each person's needs rather than using a single method for everyone.
Background and approach
Sessions are focused on what the client wants to change and how to make that change feel manageable. Her background includes work with trauma and abuse, grief, parenting concerns and compassion fatigue, as well as mood and anxiety difficulties. Sarah also supports people facing health-related challenges, chronic pain, and issues with body image and eating.
She pays attention to how attachment patterns and past losses can shape current relationships and emotional reactions. In sessions she uses practical tools alongside reflective conversation. This can involve spotting unhelpful thinking patterns, building skills for emotional regulation, or identifying personal values to guide decisions.
The aim is to leave people with usable strategies they can try between meetings. Sarah offers appointments that suit different routines and needs. She accepts international clients and works in English.
People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and arranging a session at a time that suits them.
What Sarah works with
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Sessions & fees
How Sarah's approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, low mood and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and changing thought and behaviour patterns that keep problems going; it is often used for anxiety, phobias and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape expectations and responses, and it can help with patterns of trust, intimacy and emotional reactivity.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that suit their style, and adjust the plan as progress or obstacles appear. That means practical tools can be blended with reflective work to suit what each person needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging so people can pick what fits their day. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a brief check-in, and messaging is useful for ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, family and other 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
