Sarah Bonnette, LCSW, LISW

Sarah Bonnette is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Independent Social Worker with 20 years of practice in Ohio. She focuses on clear, practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, parenting strain, and life transitions. Sarah listens carefully and aims to meet people where they are.

She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try alternatives. She uses a client-centered stance to follow each person's priorities and a solution-focused lens to set small, achievable steps. Her trauma-informed work attends to safety and pacing for people who have experienced abuse or loss.

Sessions are aimed at finding concrete ways to ease distress and build coping skills. Sarah helps people break problems into manageable pieces and practice new responses between visits. She often blends short-term problem solving with deeper work when it fits the person's goals.

Her background includes long experience with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, intellectual and developmental disability, first responder stress, caregiver strain, and domestic violence recovery. That range shapes how she adapts strategies to suit different needs and abilities.

People who choose Sarah can expect practical tools, steady listening, and a focus on goals they can see progress toward. She invites honest talk about what is working and what needs to change so therapy stays useful and relevant.

Approaches you can use online

CBT helps people spot patterns of thinking that increase distress and learn small experiments to test different thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, anger, and ADHD-related impulsivity by teaching clear steps to change responses.

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters to the person. The therapist reflects understanding and helps the client set their own goals, which can be useful for grief, identity questions, or finding direction after big changes.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sarah will work with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and pace. That means trying practical tools, then adjusting toward deeper trauma-focused work when both agree it helps.

Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people connect face to face without travel, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text-based messaging works for brief reflections or between-session notes. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days while still practicing the same therapeutic skills used in office visits.