About Sarah
Sarah Burdett is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 23 years of experience. She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and manage anxiety. She helps people who are dealing with relationship strain, trauma or parenting challenges, and supports those facing major life changes.
Sarah uses somatic approaches alongside talk-based work to help people notice how stress shows up in the body and in daily life. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and on solution-focused methods to set small, achievable goals.
Background and approach
When relationship concerns arise she applies principles from the Gottman Method to improve communication and connection. In sessions she aims for respect, sensitivity, and steady support. Conversations and treatment plans are shaped to each person’s needs and pace.
Parents can expect practical strategies for managing parenting stress and postpartum mood concerns. Sarah has worked across a range of concerns including guilt, shame, loneliness, workplace stress, and issues tied to family of origin and blended families. She offers ways to cope with seasonal mood shifts, pregnancy and childbirth transitions, and symptoms related to past trauma.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She helps people set realistic steps and practices they can use between sessions. The emphasis is on manageable change, not quick fixes.
How somatic and skills-based methods work online
Sarah combines somatic therapy with cognitive behavioral and solution-focused tools to address stress, anxiety, trauma and relationship concerns. Somatic Therapy helps people notice body sensations linked to emotions and learn gentle ways to regulate those sensations. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new, more useful ways of thinking and behaving. Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on small, practical steps that move a person toward their goals.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Sessions may shift over time as progress is made or priorities change, and plans are adjusted together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules. These options allow for regular check-ins, homework support between sessions, and flexible ways to practice body-based and cognitive exercises. For many people, remote sessions reduce travel time and let them use therapeutic tools in real-world settings where problems arise.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English