Sara Cooley, LCSW
Colorado · 5 years in practice
Sara Cooley is a Colorado-based licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and life changes.
License and registration
- LCSW, Colorado
- 09927331 · expires August 2027
- LCSW, Texas
- 64250 · expires September 2026
- NPI
- 1346882594 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Sara
Sara Cooley is a Colorado-based licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and life changes. She supports people coping with depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and challenges like ADHD and bipolar mood disorders. Sara brings a calm, straightforward style that aims to make therapy feel understandable and doable.
She takes a practical, person-focused approach in sessions. She listens first, then helps people set small goals and try steps that fit their daily life.
Background and approach
Techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy are used to change unhelpful patterns and strengthen coping skills. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is also part of her toolkit for working with trauma-related memories. Sara pays attention to how attachment, family of origin patterns, and body image shape current struggles.
She helps people untangle guilt, shame, abandonment concerns, and codependency in clear, step-by-step ways. Work on communication and boundaries is common for people who want healthier relationships. Sessions may include emotion regulation skills from dialectical behavior therapy and conversations that address life purpose and meaning inspired by existential approaches.
The aim is to build practical tools alongside deeper self-understanding. She frames therapy as a collaborative process where the person in therapy sets the pace. Sara has five years of clinical experience and holds Colorado and Texas LCSW credentials.
She offers services in English and accepts international clients. Remote formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Sara lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Sara names
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Sara uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that maintain anxiety, panic, or low mood. CBT focuses on small experiments and skills people can use between sessions to feel more in control.She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), which helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and to focus on actions that match their values. ACT can be useful for people facing life transitions, chronic worry, or struggles with meaning and purpose.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try strategies together, and adjust methods based on the client's goals and how they respond. EMDR is part of her toolkit for addressing trauma-related memories when that seems appropriate.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people keep visual contact for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support between sessions and can be used for brief check-ins, homework prompts, or tracking progress. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family routines.
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. It does not change what you pay or the order of the listings.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Sara commonly address?
Sara helps people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, bipolar and other mood or personality disorder challenges.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is warm and straightforward. She listens closely, sets clear goals with clients, and focuses on practical steps that can be used between sessions.
What kind of experience does she have?
Sara has five years of clinical experience working in mental health and social work settings, using a mix of evidence-informed approaches to help people manage symptoms and life transitions.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, with Colorado and Texas LCSW credentials, and practices from Colorado.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats does she use?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does pricing and payments work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin a first session?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.
More therapists in Colorado
See allJai Pitre
LCSW, CSW
Connecting strengths with steady change
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
June Santon
LPC
Compassionate, practical counseling for life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
Kelley Sullivan
LCSW
Experienced LCSW focused on trauma and relationships
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship
- Trauma and abuse
Kenneth Mowery
LPC
Person-centered therapist informed by neuroscience
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship
- Trauma and abuse
Is this your profile?
Ask us to correct details or take the page down.
Contact us