About Sarah
Sarah Gensmantel is a BACP counsellor and psychotherapist who offers online person-centred and integrative support. She combines talking therapy with optional holistic practices such as breathwork, mindfulness, meditation and gentle movement when appropriate. Sarah invites people to work at a pace that feels manageable and meets each person with warmth and honesty.
Sarah has four years of therapeutic experience and a background in education, where she focused on pastoral care and safeguarding.
Background and approach
That experience shaped her approach to supporting people who feel overwhelmed or emotionally unsafe. She has worked with concerns such as trauma, anxiety, depression, low self-worth, loss and grief, and recovery from sexual abuse and rape. In sessions she pays attention to both words and body-held experience, drawing on somatic ideas alongside attachment-based and client-centred ways of working.
Practical coping strategies are offered so people can try tools between sessions. Sarah also uses mindfulness and cognitive behavioural techniques when they suit a person’s needs. She welcomes adults and young people who are looking for support, understanding or guidance through difficult times.
Sessions are offered through video, phone, chat or messaging, and any breathwork or yoga practices are optional and adapted to each person. Sarah aims to build a safe, non-judgemental space where clients can explore feelings and make changes at a comfortable pace. She pays close attention to each person’s story and works collaboratively to develop insight and practical steps forward.
How online sessions use somatic and attachment-informed work
Online therapy with Sarah draws on somatic-informed ideas and attachment-based and client-centred approaches. Somatic-informed work pays attention to bodily sensations and movement as part of emotional experience, and can help with trauma, anxiety and stress by offering ways to notice and regulate physical responses. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in relationships and how early bonds affect current feelings and behaviours, which is useful for worries about abandonment, communication and intimacy. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening with empathy and meeting a person without judgement, creating space to explore concerns at a comfortable pace.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Sarah will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels helpful, and then try different methods to see what fits best. The work can include talking, guided mindfulness, breathing practices or gentle body-based exercises when they suit the person’s needs.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face connection, phone sessions reduce the need to travel, and live chat or text messaging provide ongoing access between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and health needs while still using somatic, attachment and client-centred techniques to support change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English