About Sara
Sara Tinker is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, grief, addiction, and trauma. Her approach is grounded and practical, aimed at making everyday life feel more manageable.
Sara uses a mix of body-centered work and talk therapy to help people notice how stress shows up in the body and in relationships. She draws on Somatic Therapy, Attachment-Based work, and client-centered methods to tailor sessions to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
She emphasizes simple tools people can use between sessions to cope with strong emotions. Her training and life experience inform how she works. She holds a Master of Social Work and the license LCSW, Tennessee LCSW 1046.
Over time she has worked in community mental health, adolescent services, and independent practice, which shaped her focus on trauma, addiction, and chronic health stressors. Sara aims to create a caring, respectful space where people feel heard and understood. Sessions tend to be interactive and grounded in the client’s goals.
She pays attention to patterns in relationships, attachment wounds, and how the body stores stress. People who choose Sara often want practical strategies for coping, clearer communication, and relief from long-standing emotional pain. She supports people as they rebuild safety in their bodies, repair connections, and make decisions that fit their values and lives.
How somatic and attachment work translate online
Sara uses somatic-informed work to help people notice where tension and stress live in the body. In practice this can mean learning simple breathing, grounding, and movement-aware techniques to reduce overwhelm and ease physical holding patterns that link to emotion.Attachment-Based Therapy is used to identify patterns in close relationships and the ways early connection shapes trust and communication now. This work helps people understand and shift repeating relationship habits and build clearer boundaries and safer interactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level, adjusting techniques as trust grows and priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats can make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and health demands. Many people find working this way lets them practice skills in real time and weave therapeutic tools into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English