Sarah Bodden-Cheffen, LPC
Compassionate, practical counseling for common life stresses
Book with Sarah- Years in practice
- 9
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Sarah
Sarah Bodden-Cheffen is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana. She draws on nine years of clinical experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Her style is conversational and practical, aimed at helping parents and individuals find clearer steps forward.
Sarah uses client-centered work to build a respectful, nonjudgmental space. She pairs that with cognitive behavioral techniques to notice unhelpful thoughts and change everyday patterns.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and emotionally-focused tools help people reconnect with values and feelings when life feels overwhelming. Many people come to Sarah for parenting-related strain, grief, trauma and abuse recovery, or help with self-esteem and intimacy worries. She also supports those facing career transitions, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related challenges, and mood differences such as bipolar disorder.
Other focused concerns include codependency, control issues, and coping with divorce or separation. In sessions she emphasizes practical skills you can try between meetings. Conversations often include small behavior changes, values-based goals, and brief experiments to see what helps.
She aims to make therapy feel useful and relevant to everyday family life. Sarah works with people from diverse backgrounds, including LGBTQ+ clients, on relationship questions, shame, guilt, and rebuilding trust. She invites each person to name what matters most and helps them move toward those priorities with clear, manageable steps.
What Sarah works with
Everything Sarah lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Sarah helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Sarah lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice what matters most and take small actions toward those values even when feelings are difficult. It is useful for anxiety, depression, parenting stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift patterns that cause distress. It often helps with anxiety, mood concerns, and coping strategies.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, past efforts, and preferences, then try approaches that fit best. Sessions may blend methods so people get skills, emotional support, and real-life experiments that match their needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help people fit counseling into busy schedules and keep progress moving when in-person visits are hard to arrange.
Questions people ask about Sarah
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, and a range of mood and behavioral concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is conversational and practical, combining client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral and emotionally-focused methods and mindfulness practices.
What is her professional background?
She has nine years of professional experience providing counseling in a clinical setting and community work.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are fees and payment handled?
Costs vary by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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