Sara Figueroa, LCSW

Sara Figueroa is an LCSW with 14 years of social work experience. She trained at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service and has worked across settings that include child welfare, substance use, crisis response, sexual assault advocacy, and hospice and grief support. Sara practices from a nonjudgmental stance and focuses on meeting people where they are in life.

Her sessions tend to be practical and paced to each person’s needs. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to follow what matters most to the person in the room. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thinking and behaviors. Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy appear in her toolbox when those approaches fit a client’s goals.

Sara has worked with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, relationship struggles, grief, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem concerns, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, caregiving stress, communication problems, dissociation, and life transitions. Her background includes experience with LGBTQ clients and diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.

In sessions she helps people set clear goals and develop practical steps toward them. Treatment plans are created together and adjusted as needed. She emphasizes active listening and straightforward strategies so clients can try new skills between meetings.

Sara aims to guide people through change without pressure. She invites those ready to start a process of growth to consider a collaborative, goal-focused approach to therapy.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person. The therapist provides empathy and reflects understanding so clients can name their goals and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses simple exercises and experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting that reduce distress and improve daily functioning.

Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss what has helped in the past, what goals matter now, and together recommend methods to try. Plans are adjusted over time based on what the client finds useful and doable.

If you are considering online work, confirm the session formats before booking since the biography does not list them. Many people find online sessions useful for fitting therapy into a busy week, shortening travel time, and making it easier to keep regular appointments. Online work can also make quick check-ins or focused skills practice simpler to schedule around daily life. Licensed professionals will help match session style and approach to your goals so therapy can fit into your routine.