Sarah McGlashan

Sarah McGlashan is an AASW accredited social worker with six years of professional experience in the mental health sector. She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and the practical fallout of major life changes. She also works with concerns around relationships and career, and has a focus on life purpose and women's issues.

Sarah takes a collaborative, strengths-based approach. She helps people identify what matters to them and the next small steps they can try. Sessions are conversational and practical, with an emphasis on building coping skills and clearer day-to-day routines.

Her clinical style draws on client-centred work alongside evidence-based techniques such as cognitive behavioural strategies, dialectical behaviour approaches and mindfulness. That mix can help with mood and anxiety symptoms, unpicking unhelpful thinking patterns, and learning emotion regulation skills.

Sarah also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods to help people clarify goals and break them into manageable actions. This can be useful for career decisions, postnatal adjustments, or rethinking personal priorities after a major life change.

Sessions are run in English and she works from an adult-focused perspective. People looking for practical tools and steady, collaborative support often find her approach straightforward and goal oriented.

How Sarah uses evidence-based approaches online

Sarah commonly uses client-centred therapy to make sessions conversational and focused on your priorities. That approach is about listening to your concerns, reflecting what matters and shaping goals together, which can help when you are unsure what to change.

She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviours affect mood. CBT includes practical techniques such as identifying unhelpful thinking, testing beliefs and building new routines to reduce anxiety or low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of working together. Sarah will discuss what techniques match your goals and preferences, and adjust the mix over time so the work fits your needs and what you want to achieve.

Session formats are not listed in the biography, so please confirm available options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example they can save travel time, allow shorter check-in meetings during a lunch break, or remove the need to be on camera when that feels difficult. Appropriately qualified or registered therapists commonly use practical tools from CBT, DBT and mindfulness in remote sessions to support mood, anxiety and coping with life changes.