About Sara
Sara Bice is a licensed mental health counselor in New York who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports clients facing trauma and abuse, addiction, and family-related problems. Sara’s approach is practical and respectful, and she aims to meet people where they are.
Sara uses conversation and structured strategies to create clear steps forward. She offers space to talk through painful experiences and then helps people try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Her style balances listening with goal-focused work so sessions feel constructive and grounded. With 16 years of experience, she draws on a mix of counseling methods tailored to each person. That can mean working on thoughts and behaviors, using mindfulness to calm the nervous system, or focusing on values and meaning when life feels hollow.
She adapts what she offers to fit the problem at hand. Sara has particular experience related to family stress, adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, caregiver burden, and end-of-life and hospice counseling. She also addresses issues connected to autism, gender dysphoria, cancer, and eating or control problems.
Sessions are practical and paced to the person’s needs. Sara encourages small, achievable steps and checks in on progress. She aims to make therapy feel useful, clear, and doable for people under strain.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on respectful, nonjudgmental listening and helps people find their own solutions. This approach is useful for building trust, working through grief, and sorting complex family or relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence emotions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, stress, and some problems with addiction or control issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps. The process is collaborative and paced to the person’s needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people meet face to face when that helps the work. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a work break. Chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, writing through thoughts, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around life demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English