- CBT strategies
- DBT skills
- Attachment focus
About Sarah
Sarah Sifran-McClellan is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor with 14 years of clinical experience practicing in Oklahoma and Colorado. She helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, relationship strain, career pressures, ADHD, and life changes. Sarah also works with concerns tied to adoption and foster care, attachment issues, blended family stress, and substance use challenges.
Her sessions focus on practical steps people can use right away. She listens for patterns in how someone thinks, feels, and reacts. Then she offers strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral and dialectical approaches, and from client-centered and attachment-based ways of working. Motivational interviewing shows up when people want to make changes but feel stuck.
Sarah describes her style as straightforward and person-centered. Conversations often include skill practice, clear feedback, and short-term goals. She uses behavioral experiments, emotion regulation skills, and communication techniques to reduce sudden outbursts and simmering resentment alike.
Over time she helps people notice triggers and build different responses to anger and stress. That can mean changing unhelpful thinking, learning calming skills, or improving how someone sets boundaries and speaks up at work or at home. The focus is on usable tools that fit everyday life.
Sessions are offered in English. Her credential is LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor, with CO LPC and OK LPC registrations. To begin, she asks people to complete a short questionnaire and schedule an initial meeting to identify goals.
How therapeutic approaches are used in online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape how people handle anger and closeness. Online conversations using this approach help people notice patterns in their reactions and practice new ways of relating during everyday interactions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors keep problems going and teaches concrete exercises to change them. CBT can help with workplace stress, self-critical thinking, and rapid anger spikes. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills. In an online setting those skills become practical tools for handling intense moments and reducing impulsive reactions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying skills, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than offering a single fixed method.
If you plan to meet online, confirm the exact session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online work can make fitting therapy into a busy day easier, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets people practice communication and emotion skills in the settings where problems actually occur, which many clients find useful.
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Experience
14+ years
Listed in
Oklahoma, Colorado
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of anger-related problems does she help with?
She works with losing temper with close people, workplace frustration, built-up resentment, and coping with someone else's anger.
Which therapeutic approaches does she use?
She uses attachment-based work, client-centered methods, CBT, DBT, and motivational interviewing as appropriate.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 14 years of experience working with people on stress, mood, relationships, and behavioral concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor with CO LPC and OK LPC registrations and practices in Oklahoma and Colorado.
In what languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with people outside the United States?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions charged?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.