About Sarah
Sarah Watt is a licensed mental health counselor who brings 15 years of clinical experience to her practice in Florida. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, and relationship or intimacy struggles. Sarah aims to be a steady, straightforward presence rather than giving theory-heavy lectures.
She trained in counseling and began working in a variety of settings, including inpatient hospitals, community mental health, residential treatment, school-based therapy, and outpatient care.
Background and approach
Those roles shaped how she approaches complex issues like dissociation, grief, and substance use. Sarah opened a small independent practice in 2017 and has continued to work with people navigating painful life changes. Sarah uses therapy methods that fit the person and the problem.
She blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral tools and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. For trauma she also uses EMDR when appropriate, and she draws on relational and attachment-focused ideas for relationship concerns. Sessions with Sarah tend to emphasize clear goals and usable skills.
She helps people notice patterns, try different behaviors, and build routines that reduce stress and improve sleep, parenting, or work functioning. She also supports people dealing with identity questions, gender dysphoria, or LGBTQ issues. Sarah describes therapy as a collaborative process.
She prefers to check in about fit early on and will schedule a video or phone conversation so people can get a sense of her style before committing to regular sessions. Her practice offers several online formats to make sessions easier to attend.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Sarah blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR in ways that fit each person. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so people feel heard and respected. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep, and stress. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that helps process painful memories and reduce their emotional intensity when appropriate.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, past experiences, and what feels doable. Together they will try methods and adjust them over time, mixing listening, skills practice, and trauma processing as needed to match the client's needs and comfort.
Online therapy makes those approaches more flexible. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins or real-time skill coaching. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules, provide quick ways to follow up between sessions, and make consistent care easier to maintain.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English