Dr. Sara Lewis-Stankus, LPC, LMHC

Dr. Sara Lewis-Stankus greets people with a straightforward offer: help sorting through stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and career doubts. She is a licensed professional counselor, LPC, and a licensed mental health counselor, LMHC, with 26 years of experience. Her style is nonjudgmental and focused on practical change.

She helps people identify the patterns that keep them stuck and tries to replace those patterns with concrete steps. That work can touch self-esteem, confidence, forgiveness, and repairing or letting go of relationships. She also supports people facing caregiving strain, chronic illness or disability, body image concerns, and feelings of isolation.

Her approach draws from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, EMDR, and the Gottman Method. In sessions she listens, helps name what matters most, and suggests small skills or experiments people can try between meetings. Therapy is framed as a partnership rather than a lecture.

Dr. Lewis-Stankus has helped people navigate losses, betrayal, and the stress of changing life roles. She also addresses control issues, impulsivity, guilt, shame, and the emotional fallout of separation or disaster. Her long experience is used to tailor practical steps to each person’s goals.

People looking to begin are encouraged to think about what matters most to them right now. The work that follows is paced to match readiness and real life, with a focus on building solutions that carry over outside the therapy room.

Approaches you can use online

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and creating an accepting space so people can find their own answers; it helps when someone needs support making changes without feeling judged. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and introduces practical tools to reduce anxiety or change unhelpful habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for handling strong emotions and improving relationships through steady skill-building.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That might mean trying different techniques and adjusting as progress is made.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, shorten travel time, or allow for a quicker check-in when schedules are tight. Many people find that remote sessions help them keep momentum between meetings while still working on concrete skills and relationship patterns.