Sarah Hershey, LISW

Sarah Hershey is a licensed independent social worker with 18 years of experience working in Ohio. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by listening carefully and offering straightforward tools to manage day-to-day struggles. Sarah aims to make the first steps into therapy easier and less overwhelming for anyone who reaches out.

She helps people address anxiety, stress, and depression using clear methods that fit each person's life. Trauma, grief, and parenting concerns are also areas she commonly addresses. Sarah pays attention to how relationships and past attachment patterns affect current behavior and mood.

Her approach centers on practical skills and honest conversation. She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with acceptance and mindfulness ideas to help people change unhelpful patterns and tolerate difficult feelings. Sessions include talking through situations, practicing new responses, and setting small, achievable goals.

Sarah also draws on emotionally-focused and client-centered ways of working to build trust and deepen emotional awareness. This can help when communication problems, codependency, or feelings of emptiness are present. She offers guidance while keeping the pace matched to each person's needs.

People often seek her help for concerns like eating issues, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, and coping with life changes. Sarah supports exploration of family issues, divorce and loss, guilt and shame, and the search for life purpose. She emphasizes practical steps that fit everyday life and long-term healing.

How Sarah’s approaches translate to online therapy

Sarah uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try practical behavior changes. CBT often includes experimenting with small changes, tracking patterns, and practicing new skills between sessions, which works well in structured online meetings.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is another part of her work, focusing on identifying personal values and learning to accept difficult feelings while taking value-driven actions. ACT can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by teaching strategies to move forward despite tough emotions.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. Sarah talks with each person about their goals and preferences, and together they decide whether CBT, ACT, or client-centered and emotionally focused techniques will be most helpful. She adjusts methods over time based on what feels useful.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work, while phone sessions can work when video is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, homework support, or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.