Sara Monahan, BACP

Sara Monahan is a BACP-registered counsellor based in the United Kingdom with four years of professional experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing trauma, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue and major life changes. Sara highlights each person's strengths and works alongside them as they take steps toward change.

She believes people know their own stories best and brings a down-to-earth style to sessions. Conversations are straightforward and paced to what each person needs. The aim is to build confidence, increase motivation and reduce the weight of guilt or shame.

Sara commonly supports people dealing with ADHD-related challenges, social anxiety and feelings of isolation. She also helps those questioning identity or navigating issues related to LGBT experience and women’s concerns. Sessions address attachment struggles and patterns linked to narcissism or repeated relational hurts.

Therapy with Sara centres on practical tools and clearer thinking rather than lengthy theory. People can expect a mix of talking, reflecting and simple strategies to try between meetings. She pays attention to how life changes affect day-to-day coping and self-worth.

Sara welcomes conversations about life purpose, rebuilding after trauma and restoring self-love. She offers a calm, steady presence and aims to help people find manageable ways to move forward.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Sara uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional processing. One approach involves helping people process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional impact through careful, paced conversation and grounding strategies; this is useful after abuse or distressing events.

Another common strand focuses on boosting self-esteem and motivation through goal-setting, behavioural experiments and noticing strengths. These techniques help with confidence, life changes and managing compassion fatigue.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sara collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts techniques as progress is made, so therapy stays relevant and helpful.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make attendance easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is low, chat works well for quicker check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options give flexibility and help people access care around work, family and daily routines.