About Sarah
Sarah Burns is a licensed social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and changes in life. She uses a calm, down-to-earth style so conversations feel straightforward. She invites clients to bring what feels hard and then together they make a practical plan that fits day-to-day life.
Sarah practices Somatic approaches alongside therapies that focus on values and relationships. Sessions often blend talking with attention to how the body and emotions show up.
Background and approach
She works with issues such as low self-esteem, depression, compassion fatigue, intimacy-related concerns, and sleep problems. Her practice also addresses a range of related struggles. Examples include abandonment and attachment issues, caregiver stress, codependency, substance concerns, guilt and shame, loneliness, and finding life purpose.
She can help with panic attacks and concerns connected to military service and aging. Sarah holds LCSW, which is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and LISW-CP, which is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with Clinical Practice. She has six years of clinical experience and is based in North Carolina.
In sessions she aims to build trust and let each person move at a comfortable pace. Expect practical steps you can use between meetings and simple check-ins on what is or isn't working. The focus is on small, useful changes that add up over time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Somatic work pays attention to how the body holds stress and emotion, using breath, movement, and bodily awareness alongside talk to help people feel steadier. This approach can help with anxiety, sleep problems, and overwhelm. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps toward them while learning to live with uncomfortable thoughts or feelings; it is useful for depression, anxiety, and life transitions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond in sessions, then try methods that feel most helpful. The plan is revisited and adjusted as needed so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions remove travel time, and live chat or text-based messaging can support short check-ins or steady progress between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into daily life while keeping the focus on useful, achievable changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English