Sarah Claridge, LISW

Sarah Claridge is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) in Ohio with 14 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, addiction, and the stress of life changes. Sarah aims to provide a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can sort through difficult feelings and start to build better daily habits and thought patterns.

Her work emphasizes practical steps you can use between sessions. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful ones. She also uses Solution-Focused and Client-Centered approaches to set clear, achievable goals and to keep the work grounded in each person's values.

Sarah supports people coping with trauma, grief, compassion fatigue, and relationship or communication struggles. She also helps those dealing with process addictions, substance concerns, bipolar mood patterns, and ADHD-related challenges. Sessions typically focus on small, doable changes that add up over time to reduce distress and increase functioning.

She welcomes diverse identities and works to create an affirming environment for people from LGBT communities. Sarah emphasizes collaboration - she listens first, then helps design strategies that fit each person’s life and priorities. Her style is straightforward, empathetic, and aimed at practical progress.

To begin, she guides people through a plan that balances short-term relief with longer-term skills. That can include mindfulness practices, communication tools, and behavior changes tailored to everyday routines. The goal is clearer thinking, steadier habits, and more confidence managing life’s ups and downs.

How Sarah’s approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and shaping the process around each person's priorities. It helps when someone needs a steady, affirming space to talk through difficult feelings and long-term goals.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It uses simple exercises to identify unhelpful thinking and build new, practical habits that reduce anxiety or depression.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches short, focused practices to notice thoughts and calm the body. Those practices can help with stress, panic, compulsive urges, and staying present during hard moments.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist works collaboratively to pick or blend methods based on the person's needs, goals, and what feels most useful. That means adjusting techniques over time and checking in on what helps most.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten check-ins when needed, and use exercises that transfer directly into daily routines. Licensed professionals can guide use of homework, brief skills practice, and goal tracking in ways that fit everyday life without requiring lengthy travel.