About Sarah
Sarah Mac Farlane is a counsellor who focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or life changes. She uses straightforward language and practical steps to guide people who are stuck or finding day-to-day life hard. Sarah holds BACP registration which indicates a professional standing in the UK.
She has nine years of experience in therapeutic work. In sessions Sarah draws on body-aware somatic approaches alongside evidence-based therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Background and approach
She aims to notice how thoughts, feelings and physical reactions connect, and to use that awareness to build coping skills. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. People come for support with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression and grief.
She also supports clients dealing with parenting strain, relationship problems, eating concerns, anger and compassion fatigue. ADHD and body image are among other areas she addresses. Sarah uses a mix of talking, practical exercises and simple body-based techniques in sessions.
She listens for what matters most to the individual and adapts tools to fit daily life. The aim is to develop realistic ways to manage emotions and respond differently to old reactions. Sessions are available in English and can be offered to people in the UK and internationally.
The first steps are a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling a time that suits the client.
Approaches that suit online therapy and everyday life
Sarah blends somatic-informed work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ideas to guide online sessions. Somatic approaches help people notice bodily sensations linked to emotion and learn simple ways to regulate physical responses that can increase calm. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying values and taking small, practical steps towards them while learning to live alongside difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-based ideas look at patterns in relationships and how early connections influence current reactions, which can help with communication and trust issues.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist listens to what you need and suggests methods to try, then adapts the plan if something does not fit. This collaborative stance helps build realistic goals and a way of working that suits your pace and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and mobility needs and allow practical exercises and body-awareness work to be practised at home. Many people find the variety of online formats helpful for keeping momentum between sessions and for using techniques in everyday situations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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 counseling
- 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-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior 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
- Licensed
- Languages
- English