- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Sara
Sara Griffith is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping parents and individuals who are facing relationship and family strain, stress, anxiety, mood challenges, and life transitions. Her approach aims to be warm and practical so parents can use new strategies right away.
She often helps people adjusting to parenthood, including pregnancy and postpartum concerns, and supports those coping with grief, trauma, or changes after separation.
Background and approach
She also works with people managing attention differences, bipolar mood patterns, and low self-esteem. Many clients come for help with attachment issues, blended family concerns, or longstanding family-of-origin problems. Sara blends attachment-based ideas with focused, goal-oriented work.
That means she pays attention to how past relationships shape current reactions, then helps clients identify small, achievable steps forward. She uses motivational interviewing to uncover what matters most to each person and solution-focused methods to build on strengths. Her style is nurturing and encouraging but practical.
Sessions include listening, gentle reflection, and short exercises you can try between appointments. She draws on two decades of clinical work to guide conversations toward clearer choices and better daily routines. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Getting started involves a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits your needs.
What Sara works with
Everything Sara lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Sara helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Women's issues
Approaches Sara lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How attachment and solution-focused work translate online
Sara uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. In practice she helps people notice how they respond to stress and connection, and then experiments with new ways of relating that can ease family and parenting strain.She also uses motivational interviewing to clarify what matters most to each person and unlock motivation for change. Solution-focused therapy helps turn those motivations into small, practical steps that can be tried between sessions and adjusted as needed.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client will talk about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what feels most useful. That means the method can change over time to match shifting needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy family lives. Video is helpful for more interactive conversations and behavioral coaching, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be used for quick check-ins or brief skill practice. These options let people work on parenting, relationships, and life changes without rearranging their whole day.
Questions people ask about Sara
What concerns does she help with?
Sara works with relationship and family stress, parenting challenges, pregnancy and postpartum worries, grief, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and self-esteem issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is nurturing and practical. She listens for patterns tied to past relationships and then helps clients set small, achievable goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 20 years of experience providing therapy and supporting people through parenting transitions and relationship difficulties.
What credentials and where does she practice?
She holds the LMFT credential, listed as CA LMFT, and practices in California.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are involved in starting therapy?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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