- Client-centered care
- Cognitive behavioral work
- Mindfulness practice
About Sarah
Sarah Bent is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with eight years of practice. She is licensed in Indiana and Maine and helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, bipolar disorder, and depression.
She works in a client-centered way. That means she listens first and shapes sessions around what a person brings. She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to identify patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. Mindfulness tools are offered to help with overwhelming feelings and to build steadier awareness.
Sarah has experience addressing guilt and shame and the hard feelings that sometimes follow family, faith, or relationship events. She also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiver strain, aging concerns, and end-of-life topics. She pays attention to multicultural context and how background affects what someone carries.
In sessions she focuses on practical steps and small experiments people can try between meetings. Conversations cover communication skills, emotional regulation, and ways to reduce panic or depressive symptoms. Trauma-focused methods are used when past events are contributing to current distress.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process. Clients and she set goals together and check progress as they go. People who want to start are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session to see how it feels.
How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding what matters most to the individual. The therapist follows that lead and helps people clarify goals and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and offers practical experiments to change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and strengthen awareness of present-moment experience.Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. The therapist and client will look at symptoms, goals, and preferences and choose or combine methods together. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust strategies if something does not feel like a good fit.
Session formats are not specified in the original biography, so confirm current online options before booking. Online sessions can make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and remove travel time so sessions are easier to schedule. Licensed professionals can use the approaches above in remote meetings to focus on skills practice, thought work, and processing trauma-related material without changing the core aims of therapy.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
8+ years
Listed in
Indiana, Maine
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, bipolar disorder, and depression, plus related concerns such as guilt and shame.
How would she approach guilt or shame in sessions?
She uses client-centered listening alongside cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people notice thoughts, emotions, and responses tied to guilt or shame.
What is her professional background?
She has eight years of clinical experience working with mood and trauma-related issues and with people facing chronic health or caregiving stress.
Where is she licensed to practice?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Indiana and in Maine.
Can I work with her in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with international clients?
She is not currently accepting international clients.
How are session costs handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to begin?
Choose the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.