Sarah Feingold, LCSW

Sarah Feingold is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience working in California. She approaches therapy with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Sarah focuses on practical steps that help people feel more steady when life gets hard.

Sarah uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. Her work includes narrative and solution-focused elements to help people reframe their story and set clear, achievable goals.

Typical concerns she addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-esteem. She also helps with life transitions, panic attacks, caregiver strain, and problems rooted in family of origin or attachment wounds. Sarah pays attention to how guilt, shame, isolation, or losses affect daily functioning.

In sessions she aims for clear, down-to-earth conversations. She will tailor dialogue and a plan to each person’s needs. Sarah invites people to try small experiments between sessions to build new habits and notice progress.

She encourages anyone who feels stuck to take the first step. The process begins with a short matching questionnaire and then scheduling that fits the person’s availability. Sarah offers sessions that fit different schedules and communication styles.

How her methods translate to online sessions

Attachment-based work looks at patterns from early relationships and how they affect feelings now. In an online session this means talking through relationship history and noticing how current reactions repeat old patterns, then trying new responses at home.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Online CBT often involves short exercises during or between sessions, such as tracking moods, trying behavioral experiments, and reviewing what changed.

Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building a collaborative relationship. The therapist provides a supportive space online where goals are set together and the pace follows the person's needs.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and daily realities to choose methods that fit. This is a collaborative process that can change as progress is made.

Online formats offer several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different ways of working.