Sarah Fagan
Supportive counselor for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sarah
Sarah Fagan is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in North Carolina with about ten years of clinical experience. She presents as warm, honest, and approachable. Her style is nonjudgmental and respectful, and she aims to create a relaxed space where people can be themselves.
Sarah adapts her methods to each person's needs and preferences. Sarah focuses on family and parenting concerns along with related issues such as grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, and stress.
Background and approach
She also addresses attention differences, health-related challenges, and struggles with relationships and boundaries. Her work often includes coping with big life changes and supporting people through complex situations. Her approach centers on the person in front of her and their strengths.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and actions. Attachment-based ideas help when patterns from early relationships affect present family dynamics. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is another tool she uses to clarify values and build meaningful action.
She also incorporates existential perspectives when people are wrestling with purpose, responsibility, or life transitions. Sarah values creativity, nature, music, and humor and may bring these into sessions when they fit. She offers a straightforward, flexible way of working and tailors treatment to each person’s goals.
To begin, she asks people to share what matters to them and then shapes a plan together.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes clarifying what matters to you and building small, meaningful actions consistent with those values. Online sessions can help with anxiety, stress, and life changes by turning values into daily steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. In remote sessions this looks like reviewing examples from your week, trying short exercises between meetings, and tracking progress together.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current interactions. Working over video or phone, the therapist notices patterns in how you describe relationships and helps you try new ways of connecting and setting boundaries.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and practical needs. That process is gradual and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These formats let people fit sessions into busy days and use different communication styles. Remote work also makes it easier to keep momentum between sessions with brief check-ins or written reflections.
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.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Sarah
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- Stop at any point