- Person-centered approach
- DBT skill focus
- Works with addiction
About Sarah
Sarah Baumgardner is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in West Virginia with 13 years of experience. She helps people facing addiction, trauma, ADHD, LGBTQ concerns, and hard life changes. Her manner is warm and direct, aiming to make conversations feel respectful and clear for worried parents and adults alike.
Sarah uses a person-centered style that focuses on what matters most to each person. She often draws on dialectical behavior approaches to help people build emotion regulation and coping skills. She pays attention to attachment and relationship patterns when those come up in sessions.
In practice she helps clients untangle shame, grow self-compassion, and improve communication. Sessions also address codependency, family patterns, and the stresses that come with caregiving or blended family roles. She works with issues like abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, and substance use challenges.
Therapy with Sarah is collaborative. She treats the client as the expert on their life and offers tools and perspectives to move forward. Clients can expect clear goals, practical skills, and time to talk through past experiences and current choices.
Her background includes long-term clinical work across age groups and presenting problems. That history guides how she mixes cognitive behavioral ideas, attachment-focused work, and acceptance-based strategies. People seeking help in West Virginia can look to her experience when considering next steps.
How therapy approaches guide online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes values-driven action so clients can move toward what matters even when emotions are painful. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand and change ways of relating that lead to distance, anxiety, or repeating old hurts. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the room and follows their priorities, offering empathy and reflection to help clients find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, day-to-day challenges, and what techniques feel most useful. Together they decide which methods to try, and adjustments are made as progress unfolds.
Because session formats are not listed in the original biography, please confirm current online session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by reducing travel time, allowing sessions during work breaks, or offering shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it possible to use skill coaching, worksheets, and in-the-moment practice in everyday settings so skills transfer from session to life.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
13+ years
Credentials
West Virginia
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What types of concerns does she help with?
She helps people with addictions, trauma and abuse, ADHD, LGBTQ concerns, coping with life changes, and codependency. She also addresses related issues like attachment problems, communication struggles, and caregiver stress.
What is her general therapy style?
She follows a person-centered, collaborative style that emphasizes listening and respect. Sessions combine practical skills teaching with discussion of past experiences and relationship patterns.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 13 years of clinical experience working with a variety of concerns across the lifespan. That experience informs how she blends different therapeutic ideas in session.
What credentials does she hold and where does she practice?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in West Virginia. Her practice is based in West Virginia.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people from other countries work with her?
International clients are not accepted at this time.
How are sessions scheduled and paid for?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. Exact pricing is provided during the matching and scheduling process.
What should I do to start therapy?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability. The matching step helps pair needs with the best fit.
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