Sarika Griffin , LCSW, LISW

Sarika Griffin is a licensed social worker who brings eight years of experience to helping people navigate difficult life transitions and recover from traumatic experiences. She practices with a trauma-informed, culturally sensitive lens and focuses on relationship dynamics, emotional resilience, and personal growth. As a clinician licensed in Nebraska, Iowa, and Florida, she holds the credentials LCSW and LISW - LCSW stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker and LISW stands for Licensed Independent Social Worker - reflecting advanced training in clinical social work across multiple states.

She centers her work on the whole person, supporting young adults, women, and individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds with empathy and respect. Her therapeutic approach honors intersectional identities and attends to issues such as self-esteem, attachment concerns, life changes, and coping skills. She helps clients explore self-love, address isolation, and develop practical strategies to manage stress, anxiety, and mood-related concerns.

With a focus on trauma recovery, relationship patterns, and multicultural counseling, she applies strength-based and affirming methods to guide clients through healing. Her practice emphasizes collaboration, listening, and tailored interventions aimed at fostering connection, purpose, and lasting emotional growth.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Sarika Griffin integrates approaches that support both insight and practical change. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people build safer, more secure ways of relating - it is useful for attachment concerns, intimacy issues, and relationship repair. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and developing concrete skills to manage symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy and collaborative understanding, creating space for clients to set the pace and direction of their healing and to strengthen self-awareness and self-compassion.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. Sarika works collaboratively with clients to assess needs, goals, and preferences and to tailor interventions that fit their life and values. She helps clients try strategies, reflect on what works, and adjust the plan together.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place via video calls, phone conversations, live chat, or text-based messaging - which makes it easier to fit care into busy schedules and to access support from different locations. Working with licensed professionals online can maintain continuity of care and provide multiple ways to engage that match a client’s comfort and routine.