Sarah Brown , LPC

Sarah Brown is a licensed counselor who brings more than a decade of hands-on experience in addiction and trauma work to each therapeutic relationship. She holds the LPC credential - Licensed Professional Counselor - and also has training as a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor, reflecting a focused background in substance use and recovery. Sarah views counseling as a collaborative process in which she supports clients while honoring their expertise about their own lives.

Her practice blends a person-centered orientation with solution-focused strategies, and she uses evidence-informed techniques drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Motivational Interviewing. These approaches help clients develop skills, process difficult experiences, and take concrete steps toward the changes they want to make. Sarah emphasizes practical coping tools alongside exploration of the patterns that can keep people stuck.

Sarah earned a Bachelor of Arts in Rehabilitation Studies in 2008 and began working in addiction counseling in 2009, gaining experience across adult and juvenile criminal justice settings, residential treatment, and recovery programming within a homeless shelter for women and children. She has collaborated with family and criminal courts to support individualized recovery plans. In 2018 she completed a Master of Arts in Integrated Recovery and Co-Occurring Disorders and has an extensive background in both addiction and trauma counseling. She considers it a privilege when individuals choose to share their stories and invites clients to take active roles in shaping their healing journey.

Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life

Sarah integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) along with Motivational Interviewing to address the range of concerns she works with. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and building practical strategies to change them - it is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and coping skills. DBT emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness to help people manage intense emotions and improve relationships. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-oriented method that helps people explore and strengthen their own motivation for change, which is useful in addiction work and when making difficult life changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Sarah works collaboratively with clients and licensed professionals to tailor methods to each person’s goals, preferences, and needs, adjusting techniques over time to best support progress.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for scheduling and for how people prefer to communicate. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care across busy schedules, caregiving responsibilities, or geographic constraints while still working with a therapist trained in evidence-informed approaches.