Sarah Rawlings, LMFT
Compassionate therapist focused on practical change
About Sarah
Sarah Rawlings is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Utah. She brings five years of clinical experience to conversations about stress, anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Sarah aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where people feel heard and understood. She focuses on practical goals like improving communication, building self-esteem, and managing overwhelming emotions.
Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs and paced around what they can handle. Sarah also addresses parenting concerns, postpartum depression, and intimacy-related issues with straightforward, goal-focused conversations.
Her work includes support for people dealing with addiction and process addictions such as gambling or problematic pornography use. She helps with sleep and eating disruptions, anger, and the ups and downs that come with bipolar disorder.
Grief and trauma are also part of her experience, and she emphasizes steady, manageable steps toward feeling better. Sarah uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques selected to match a person’s situation.
She helps clients set clear, realistic goals and practices skills in session that can be used at home. The approach is collaborative - she listens first, then offers tools and strategies that fit the client’s life.
People who want a calm, supportive therapist who focuses on practical change may find her approach a good match. Sessions can address career stress, relationship patterns, and the strain of parenting without jargon.
Sarah’s goal is to help people move toward greater confidence and day-to-day relief.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Sarah uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-world change. One approach emphasizes skill-building for managing anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and cognitive tools that help reduce overwhelming thoughts and reactions. Another approach centers on improving communication and relationship patterns, helping people notice interaction habits and try new ways of speaking and listening that reduce conflict and increase connection.Finding the right approach is a joint process. Sarah listens to a person’s goals and preferences, then suggests methods to try together. She adjusts techniques based on what works best, and clients help decide the pace and focus of therapy.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between sessions, do brief check-ins, or communicate when schedules are tight. These options help fit therapy into work, family, and daily life while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English