Sara Cooley, LCSW

Sara Cooley is a Colorado-licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with five years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, anger, addictions, and major life changes. She also supports concerns around self-esteem, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strains, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, and career questions.

Her approach is straightforward and person-focused. Sessions focus on practical skills and clearer communication rather than labels. She uses methods that help people notice unhelpful patterns, try small changes, and build routines that reduce reactivity and overwhelm.

Sara blends cognitive behavioral tools with acceptance-oriented work and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. She uses Client-Centered and existential ideas to keep the work grounded in each person’s values and lived experience. EMDR is listed among her approaches for addressing traumatic memories.

In sessions she helps people name sources of anger and frustration, track triggers, and practice manageable behavior changes. She also addresses related feelings like shame, abandonment, and loneliness that often feed resentment. The focus is on improving day-to-day interactions and coping at work and at home.

People can expect clear, paced steps rather than a single solution. She supports rebuilding communication skills and creating routines that lower emotional intensity. Her work aims to make anger easier to notice and respond to rather than escalate.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions