Sarah Ross, LMHC

Sarah Ross is a licensed mental health counselor whose practice draws on extensive experience across clinical and community settings. She holds the LMHC credential, which stands for Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and has also served as a certified thanatologist - a specialist in grief and loss - as well as a clinical supervisor and clinic director. Her clinical background includes work in private practice, community mental health programs serving people with chronic mental illness, drug court collaborations with substance use counselors, and marital counseling centers where she taught communication skills to couples.

Over the years she has supported people facing depression, anxiety, relationship and family challenges, life phase transitions, grief and loss, and issues common to adult children of alcoholics such as low self-esteem. She approaches therapy as an interactive collaborator, helping clients identify unrecognized patterns and offering moments of new insight that can shift perspective and behavior. She emphasizes positive regard and encouragement rather than judgment.

Sarah describes her style as eclectic and adaptable, shaped by years of practice and an understanding that different people learn and change in different ways. She tends toward cognitive behavioral, Adlerian, and psychodynamic techniques while remaining flexible - offering coaching and cheerleading for some clients and a gentler, more nurturing approach for others. She encourages clients to view therapy as a committed process that requires effort from both the client and the therapist, and she looks forward to building a strong therapeutic alliance with those she works with.