About Sarah
Sarah Stewart offers a calm, body-aware way to work through stress, anxiety and life upheaval. She combines somatic approaches with talking therapies to help people notice how emotions show up in the body and find practical ways to feel steadier. Sarah is a BACP counsellor with four years' experience supporting people through relationship strain, depression and trauma-related concerns.
Sessions focus on what the person brings in the moment. Sarah listens without judgement and aims to make space for difficult feelings.
Background and approach
She helps people name sensations, thoughts and patterns so they can take small, manageable steps forward. Her work draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to offer concrete tools for coping and shifting unhelpful thinking. She also uses client-centred and internal family systems ideas to explore different parts of the self and how they relate to one another.
Sarah pays attention to how the body stores stress and uses somatic methods to help release tension and ground clients. This can include simple, breathing and movement options alongside reflective conversation. People come to Sarah for many concerns, including eating and body image issues, attachment and abandonment worries, communication difficulties, guilt and shame, and compassion fatigue.
She offers online sessions by video, phone or live messaging to fit into busy lives.
How somatic and talking therapies work online
Sarah combines somatic therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people understand both body sensations and core values. Somatic therapy focuses on how stress and emotion show up in the body and offers gentle breathing and movement practices to reduce tension. ACT helps people notice thoughts and feelings without fighting them and supports actions that match personal values.She also uses client-centred principles to keep sessions person-led and collaborative. The approach is not fixed - the therapist will work with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful for their needs and goals. Together they explore what is useful, try it out, and adjust as the work progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different lifestyles. Video lets people use visual and bodily cues, while phone or messaging can feel more personal or flexible. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work consistently from home or elsewhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English