Sarah Bodden-Cheffen
Strength-focused, practical counseling
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sarah
Sarah Bodden-Cheffen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana. She takes a straightforward, client-centered approach and focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She uses practical tools to support parents and others facing family-related challenges and life changes.
Her style is collaborative. She listens first, then offers strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral techniques and emotionally-focused work. Mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas are woven in to help with strong emotions and recurring patterns.
Background and approach
Sarah brings nine years of professional experience to sessions. She draws on that experience to tailor interventions to each person's situation, using clear steps rather than vague theory. Sessions often include skill-building, communication practice, and ways to manage overwhelming feelings.
She has experience addressing a wide range of issues such as trauma and abuse, grief, parenting struggles, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and mood disorders. Additional focus areas include codependency, divorce and separation, impulsivity, and concerns around infidelity or non-monogamous relationships. Sarah aims to make the first steps into therapy easier.
She explains the process, helps set realistic goals, and supports people as they try new ways of coping. For someone juggling family responsibilities or career stress, she offers practical, down-to-earth guidance and steady encouragement.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Sarah uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors. CBT is practical and problem-focused, often useful for anxiety, depression, and managing strong reactions. She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the conversation on the person's own goals and strengths while the therapist listens and reflects to promote understanding.She treats choosing an approach as a shared process. Early sessions are used to clarify goals, try different techniques, and decide together which methods feel most useful. That collaborative stance helps match tools to each person's situation and comfort level.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when schedules are tight, while live chat and text-based messaging work for shorter check-ins or when ongoing written support is helpful. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family or work lives and maintain continuity between sessions.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Sarah
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point