Sarah Stewart
Calm, collaborative person-centred therapy
About Sarah
Sarah Stewart offers a warm, person-focused approach to therapy that centres the client's own experience. She uses collaborative conversation to help people make sense of difficult feelings and life changes. Sarah holds a calm, non-judgemental space and encourages clients to find their own answers rather than being told what to do.
Sarah draws on several established methods to tailor sessions to each person. She brings Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and commit to values-driven action.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy supports practical shifts in thinking and behaviour, while Internal Family Systems helps map the different parts of a person that can feel at odds with each other. Across four years of practice she has worked with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, trauma and issues around body image and eating.
She also supports people coping with shame, guilt, abandonment and problems rooted in family of origin. Work may include psychoeducation, tracking physical responses, and small experiments to try between sessions. Sessions are offered in English and take place online.
Sarah accepts video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging in the form of structured live messaging sessions. Her professional credential is BACP, which is shown as part of her background in counselling and psychotherapy. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps direct people to the best next step.
From there the practicalities of scheduling and subscription are discussed and therapy can be arranged to suit individual needs.
What Sarah works with
How Sarah works
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Sessions & fees
How Sarah's approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. This can be useful for anxiety, stress and life changes where avoidance becomes a problem.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical steps to change thinking and behaviour patterns. It often includes exercises or experiments to try between sessions to test new ways of coping with mood and relationships.
Sarah will work collaboratively to find the best approach for each person. She discusses options and adapts techniques based on a person’s needs, goals and what feels workable in day-to-day life. The aim is to try approaches together and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and structured live messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer typing or need a more flexible way to fit sessions into a busy day. These options make therapy more accessible and easier to arrange around work, family and travel commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
