Sara Harvey

Sara Harvey is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Michigan with 15 years of experience. She began her career working in a nonprofit serving at-risk children and families and continues to support people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma-related concerns. She focuses on clear, practical work and treats each person with sensitivity and compassion.

Her background includes long-term work alongside children ages 4 to 17 and their caregivers in homes, schools, and community settings. That experience informs a hands-on approach to attachment, bonding, and family stress. She also has experience addressing parenting strain, caregiver stress, and issues that affect relationships at home.

Sara uses approaches drawn from attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral work to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new ways of responding. Motivational interviewing is part of her toolbox for clients who are weighing change, and trauma-focused methods are used when trauma is central to the problem.

Sessions aim to be collaborative and straightforward. Goals are set together, and plans are adjusted as progress is made. The emphasis is on small, achievable steps that fit into everyday life.

She works with concerns including addictions, anger, body image, codependency, chronic illness and pain, loneliness, hoarding, and career difficulties. Sara frames treatment around the person in front of her, not a one-size-fits-all protocol.

How these approaches shape online work

Sara draws on attachment-based thinking to look at how early relationships affect current bonds and feelings of safety. This approach helps with attachment issues, caregiver stress, and relationship problems by focusing on patterns in connections and ways to change them.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in her practice focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and testing new responses. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and some aspects of body image or coping with chronic illness.

She also uses motivational interviewing to help people who are unsure about change. That method emphasizes gentle, person-centered conversations about values and next steps when someone is weighing choices about behaviors or treatment.

Deciding on the best approach is a joint process. The therapist and client discuss goals, preferences, and past experiences and then pick methods that suit those needs. Plans are adjusted over time based on how well they work for the person.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the available session formats before booking so you know what is offered. Online work can make scheduling easier, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time so sessions fit into a busy week. Therapists can adapt these approaches to remote sessions while focusing on practical steps that fit everyday life.