Sarah Bentley works with adults who feel stuck in repeating the same painful patterns.
01About Sarah
Sarah Bentley works with adults who feel stuck in repeating the same painful patterns. She helps people notice how past experiences shape present thoughts, emotions, and actions so they can move forward with clearer choices. She focuses on identifying the root experiences that feed negative beliefs and unpleasant feelings.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to the client's needs. Sarah uses guided conversation and specific techniques to reduce distress and build new habits of thinking and feeling.
Background and approach
Sarah holds the credential LPCC, which stands for Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, and she also lists LMHP. She brings ten years of experience supporting people through anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and addiction-related concerns. Her work also addresses stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and challenges such as body image and codependency.
Her approach draws from attachment-based work, client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior techniques, and EMDR-style processing. In practice that means she pays attention to how attachment history affects relationships, centers the client's goals, teaches concrete coping skills, and uses processing methods for traumatic memories when appropriate. Clients can expect a straightforward, down-to-earth approach.
Sessions aim to replace old patterns with more adaptive responses. Sarah helps people reframe limiting beliefs, manage intense emotions, and build day-to-day routines that support lasting change.
02Credentials
- LMHP (Nebraska)
- License 4679 · expires September 2026
- LPCC (New Mexico)
- License CCMH0222961 · expires September 2027
- NPI
- 1457799538 · national provider identifier
Both are public records. A state board register will confirm a license and its standing, and the national registry will confirm an NPI. This directory copies what the counselor lists and checks neither.
03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Sarah lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Methods Sarah names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
These are the methods Sarah names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand connection needs and repair unhelpful relational habits through reflective conversation and exercises. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and offers practical strategies to change them, useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and recommend methods that match those needs. That collaborative planning helps clients try techniques and adjust the plan as they learn what works best for them.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video is useful when visual cues and face-to-face conversation matter. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use written tools when that format feels easier to manage. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and fit therapy into busy schedules.
05Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addiction concerns, and relationship or intimacy issues among other challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, combining client-centered listening with practical skill teaching and trauma-focused processing.
How long has she been practicing?
She has ten years of clinical experience working with adults on a range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
Where is the therapist based and what are her credentials?
She practices in New Mexico and lists the credentials LPCC and LMHP, including NM LPCC and NE LMHP in her credential details.
Are sessions available in other languages?
Sessions are offered in English.
What formats are used for sessions?
Sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How is pricing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How does someone begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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