Sarah Bonnette
Calm guidance for parents and families
- Credentials
- LCSW, LISW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio, Maine, Nevada
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sarah
Sarah Bonnette is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience based in Ohio. She has worked in settings that include children, adults, and family services. She is trained as an LCSW and an LISW and brings long experience supporting people through difficult life moments.
Her practice emphasizes clear listening and a non-judgmental stance. Sessions focus on practical steps and building on strengths. She aims to meet people where they are and help them locate the next right move.
Background and approach
Sarah often supports families and parenting concerns alongside anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and stress. She also has experience with adoption and foster care, attachment issues, and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Other areas she has worked with include compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, and first responder issues.
In session she uses approaches that are solution-focused and client-centered, and she applies trauma-informed principles when appropriate. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are also part of her toolkit for managing mood and anxiety symptoms. Conversations are practical, geared toward goals, and paced to the client’s needs.
Sarah works with people who want to find workable strategies and clearer direction. She encourages collaboration and small steps toward meaningful change. Prospective clients can expect straightforward, respectful care that focuses on real-life problems and solutions.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting support
Sarah often draws on Client-Centered Therapy, focusing on listening, empathy, and helping the person lead the conversation. This approach helps when a parent or family member needs space to be heard and to make decisions at their own pace.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or CBT to break down patterns of thoughts and behaviors that contribute to anxiety or low mood. CBT offers concrete tools and exercises that can be practiced between sessions to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each client to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice may shift as progress is made and circumstances change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when convenient. Phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging provide options for shorter check-ins, emotional support between appointments, or when video isn’t possible. These formats help make consistent support easier to fit into family life and caregiving schedules.
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.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Maine, Nevada, Connecticut
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point