Sarah Thompson
Calm practical help for stress and relationships
About Sarah
Sarah Thompson supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression and grief. She helps those dealing with relationship and intimacy difficulties, parenting strain, addiction and trauma. Sarah also works with issues around self-esteem, career changes, anger and ADHD.
She draws on 17 years of experience to offer steady, practical help. Sarah creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk and be heard. Sessions focus on what matters now and on steps that feel manageable.
Background and approach
She aims to help people build skills they can use between sessions and to find clearer ways of coping with life changes. Her background includes work with people affected by abuse, domestic violence and dissociation. She also supports people managing chronic illness or pain, caregiver stress and compassion fatigue.
Other areas of focus include attachment and abandonment concerns, communication problems, codependency and commitment issues. Sarah uses client-centred ways of working alongside structured tools from cognitive behavioural therapy. She also draws on emotionally-focused methods and the Gottman Method where relationships are a central concern.
Mindfulness techniques are offered to help with anxiety, stress and emotional regulation. Sarah holds BACP registration, which means she is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She works with people across the United Kingdom and accepts international clients, offering sessions in English by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions according to the scheduling options available.
What Sarah works with
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Sessions & fees
How Sarah’s approaches work online
Sarah uses client-centred therapy to start most working relationships. That means sessions begin with the person’s priorities and experiences, and the therapist listens deeply to understand what matters. This approach is useful for building trust and deciding next steps.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and testing new ways of coping. CBT can help with anxiety, low mood, stress and many everyday difficulties by offering clear strategies and small experiments to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sarah will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. Together they decide whether to use more client-centred listening, CBT skills, emotionally-focused work or a mix of approaches.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, and messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer written reflection. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family life and other commitments, while still getting regular, focused support.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- 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
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
