Sara Griffith, LMFT
Practical support for relationship and parenting stress
About Sara
Sara Griffith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who focuses on helping people navigate relationship and parenting strain. She is based in California and brings 20 years of experience to sessions.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and practical, with an emphasis on finding concrete steps forward. Sara often helps people dealing with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, grief, and stress.
She also supports those wrestling with trauma, attachment concerns, ADHD, and self-esteem struggles. Parents and caregivers may find guidance around postpartum depression, fatherhood issues, blended family challenges, and adoption or foster care matters.
In sessions she draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships influence current patterns. Motivational Interviewing is used to help people clarify their goals and find internal reasons to change.
Solution-Focused Therapy guides work toward clear, achievable steps rather than long lists of problems. Sara describes her approach as nurturing and empowering.
She works with each person to identify strengths and practical strategies that fit daily life. Conversations can include emotional exploration alongside behavior-focused plans for change.
Her background includes long experience supporting parents of infants and young children, and years practicing across regions. As an LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) she blends life experience with clinical judgment to help people move out of stuck places.
How Sara's Approaches Work Online
Sara uses Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationships affect current patterns. Online sessions can focus on recognizing those patterns and practicing new ways of relating that feel safer and more connected.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help clients find clear, personal reasons to make changes. In video or chat sessions this looks like guided conversations that clarify goals and small steps clients feel ready to try.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences rather than prescribing a single path. Sessions often mix approaches so the plan fits what the client wants to achieve.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing brief contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, childcare, or busy schedules and to try different formats as needs change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English