Sara Bice, LMHC

Sara Bice is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in New York. She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma and abuse, and issues around relationships and intimacy. She also offers coaching for practical goals and support through addiction concerns.

Sara takes a straightforward, respectful approach. She listens first and tailors conversations to each person's needs. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, manageable steps people can use between meetings.

Her work draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. She also uses client-centered techniques to keep the conversation focused on the person's own priorities. Mindfulness and solution-focused ideas are folded in when they fit a person's goals.

Over more than 16 years in the field she has supported people facing family conflict, adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, caregiving stress, and the emotional impact of medical challenges like cancer and hospice care. She has experience with eating and food-related concerns, gender dysphoria, and complications around divorce and domestic violence.

Sara aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can work through control and communication problems, commitment worries, or feelings of emptiness. She emphasizes practical strategies and collaborative planning so clients leave sessions with concrete next steps.

Approach and online options that fit your life

Sara commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify thoughts that feed anxiety or low mood and to practice new behaviors that change everyday outcomes. CBT focuses on clear steps and short-term experiments that can reduce symptoms and build new skills.

She also draws on client-centered therapy, which centers the conversation on the person's own goals and pace. This approach is useful for people who want a supportive, nonjudgmental space to sort through feelings and decisions. When helpful, elements of existential and mindfulness work are added to address meaning, values, and present-moment awareness.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Sara collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and brief check-ins or written reflections fit well with messaging or live chat. These options let people fit therapy around work, caregiving, or busy days while keeping focus on steady progress.