Sarah Tolley
Experienced counsellor helping people build confidence and calm
About Sarah
Sarah Tolley is a counsellor with ten years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She holds NCPS accreditation, which is shown as NCPS, and has spent her career helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and anger. She aims to create a calm and approachable setting where people can talk through difficult feelings and build confidence.
Sarah has worked across a wide range of settings. Her background includes independent practice and roles in education supporting pupils with low mood and suicidal feelings.
Background and approach
She has also worked with many people from diverse socioeconomic, ethnic and religious backgrounds and with members of the LGBTQ+ community. Her approach focuses on helping people develop self-esteem, life direction and inner resilience. She supports people to identify unhelpful patterns and practise new ways of coping.
Practical skills and steadier thinking are emphasised alongside understanding past experiences. Sarah uses several therapy methods to meet different needs. These include attachment-based approaches to look at relationship patterns, cognitive behavioural techniques for changing thoughts and behaviours, and EMDR for processing trauma.
She adapts her style to each person and aims to work at a comfortable pace. Sessions are offered in English and can take place online through video, phone, chat or messaging. For someone unsure how to begin, Sarah offers a straightforward matching process to get started and a supportive, non-judgemental way of working.
What Sarah works with
How Sarah works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current connections and emotional responses. Online sessions can help people notice relationship patterns and practise different ways of responding.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It teaches simple skills to reduce anxiety, improve mood and change unhelpful behaviours through short exercises and practical tasks.
Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing, EMDR, helps people process traumatic memories so they feel less overwhelming. When offered online, it can involve guided bilateral stimulation and careful pacing to suit the person's needs.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about concerns, goals and preferences, and together they will choose or combine methods that feel appropriate and manageable.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for a full face-to-face feel, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or times when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, study and daily life while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
