About Sara
Sara Scruggs is an LCSW with ten years of clinical experience practicing in Illinois. She draws on a trauma-informed perspective and a range of therapeutic tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, and major life transitions.
Background and approach
Her work emphasizes recognizing each person's strengths while offering structured support for navigating family tensions, compassion fatigue, and challenges with self-esteem and motivation. Her approach integrates evidence-based techniques to address communication and relationship patterns, attachment concerns, and issues like guilt, shame, or jealousy.
Sara also works with clients on practical skills for coping with workplace stress, control struggles, and decisions around commitment or blended family dynamics. She aims to balance empathic listening with problem-solving strategies so clients feel supported while making measurable changes.
Sara believes therapy is a collaborative process that centers the client’s goals and lived experience. She uses her LCSW training to create an environment focused on growth, resilience, and clearer direction, helping people move toward greater self-love, forgiveness, and a renewed sense of purpose.
Approach and Online Care with Evidence-Based Methods
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration, focusing on the client's goals and strengths to guide each session and support personal growth. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) uses structured techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and to build practical skills for managing anxiety, stress, and workplace or relationship difficulties. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) explores emotional patterns and attachment-related responses to help improve communication and repair disconnects in important relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist works collaboratively with each client to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they may try different techniques and adjust the focus over time to find what produces the most useful progress for the individual.
Online therapy offers practical benefits such as flexible scheduling and multiple formats to suit varying needs. Clients can meet by video calls or phone sessions for in-depth conversations, or use live chat and text-based messaging for more frequent check-ins and between-session support. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care around work, family, or geographic constraints while accessing the guidance of licensed professionals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English