About Sarah
Sarah Hope approaches therapy through evidence-based therapeutic techniques that emphasize practical skills alongside personal insight. She brings a decade of experience as an LCPC, combining cognitive-behavioral tools with humanistic validation and existential perspectives to help people manage anxiety, depression, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in substance use treatment, neurofeedback in independent practice, and counseling across a range of life challenges including relationship, family, and intimacy-related issues.
Her clinical path has included outreach with homeless populations and people affected by severe mental illness, plus international work supporting street children in New Delhi where she integrated nonverbal communication and holistic compassion into her practice.
That international experience, paired with graduate training in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, shapes her collaborative style - one that values respect, curiosity, and learning together. Sarah uses a warm, approachable manner and sometimes incorporates humor and selective self-disclosure to build rapport while maintaining professional boundaries.
She offers flexible online and remote session formats, accepts international clients, and tailors care to concerns such as stress, addictions, sleep disruption, parenting struggles, codependency, career questions, and social anxiety. Sarah focuses on helping clients develop coping strategies, clearer communication, and renewed life purpose through an integrative, evidence-informed approach.
Evidence-Informed Care Delivered Online
Sarah uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to help identify unhelpful thought patterns and develop practical coping skills for anxiety, depression, panic, and related concerns. These strategies focus on changing thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.
She also draws on humanistic and existential principles that prioritize personal meaning, self-acceptance, and respectful therapeutic connection. These approaches support clients working through life purpose questions, self-love, and major transitions by fostering insight and values-based decisions.
Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the collaborative process. The therapist works with each client to clarify goals, try practical techniques, and adjust methods based on what fits the client's needs and preferences, treating therapy as a shared learning journey rather than a one-size-fits-all solution.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work and life commitments, maintain continuity during relocations or travel, and choose the communication style that feels most comfortable while still engaging in evidence-informed therapeutic work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English