Sara Cooley, LCSW

Sara Cooley is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and major life changes. She offers a calm, down-to-earth style that aims to make hard conversations feel manageable. Sara works to help people build skills for coping, improve communication, and strengthen self-esteem.

She combines practical skill-building with time to talk about what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) features in her work to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Client-Centered Therapy to support values-based choices and to center the person's own goals.

Sara pays attention to patterns that come from early relationships, such as attachment and family of origin issues. She helps people untangle codependency, abandonment concerns, jealousy, and recurring relationship problems. For those dealing with mood swings, panic episodes, or long-term mood disorders, she focuses on stabilizing routines and building practical tools.

People who struggle with addiction, body image, eating or sleeping problems will find straightforward strategies and gradual steps forward. She also supports people experiencing parenting stress, career shifts, compassion fatigue, or the particular pressures faced by LGBT individuals. Sessions aim to reduce isolation and restore a clearer sense of purpose.

Sara has five years of clinical experience and holds LCSW licensure in Colorado and Texas. She sees clients in Colorado and accepts people from other locations for online work in English. Her approach balances empathy with hands-on techniques so people can notice real changes over time.

Evidence-based approaches for online care

Sara commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy when working with people online. CBT focuses on spotting and testing unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety or depression. ACT helps people identify what matters to them and take committed steps toward those values even when difficult feelings are present.

She emphasizes collaboration when choosing methods. Together the client and therapist review goals, try approaches, and adjust what’s used based on what helps most. The therapist aims to tailor sessions to each person's needs rather than following a fixed plan.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter way to check in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, or other obligations while still using practical CBT and ACT tools.