Sarah Brown , LPC

Sarah Brown is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor who combines practical skills training with a person-centered outlook. She respects that each person is the expert on their own life and approaches counseling as a collaborative process - walking alongside clients to offer support, tools, and guidance as they navigate difficult transitions and long-standing challenges.

Sarah uses a solution-focused stance while integrating techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Motivational Interviewing to tailor care to each individual. Her work is informed by more than a decade of direct practice in addiction and trauma treatment, and she emphasizes helping people build concrete coping strategies and healthier patterns of thinking and behavior.

She earned a Bachelor degree in Rehabilitation Studies in 2008 and began specializing in addiction counseling in 2009. Over the years she has worked in adult and juvenile criminal justice settings, adult residential programs, and ran an addiction recovery program in a homeless shelter for women and children, collaborating with family and criminal court systems to support individualized recovery plans. In 2018 she completed a Master of Arts in Integrated Recovery and Co-Occurring Disorders and continued her work toward independent professional practice. With extensive experience in both addiction and trauma care, she considers it a privilege when someone chooses to share their story and seeks a path forward.

Online Therapeutic Approaches for Addiction and Trauma

Sarah often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors; CBT is practical and problem-focused, useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with stress. She also integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) techniques to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness - skills that can be especially helpful for intense emotions, relationship challenges, and self-destructive patterns. Motivational Interviewing is another approach she uses to support people who are ambivalent about change - it emphasizes the client's own values and goals to strengthen motivation for recovery and healthier choices.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Sarah collaborates with each person to determine which methods fit best with their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques over time as progress and priorities evolve.

Online therapy with licensed professionals offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call or phone, or through live chat and text-based messaging to fit busy schedules and different comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain consistent care, attend sessions from wherever is most convenient, and integrate therapeutic work into everyday life.