Sarah McGlashan , AASW

Sarah McGlashan is an AASW-accredited social worker with six years of clinical experience. She concentrates on women's issues alongside stress, anxiety, self-esteem and depression. Sarah speaks plainly and works collaboratively to help people find practical steps forward.

She uses a strengths-based, client-centred style. Sessions focus on what matters most to the person in front of her. Sarah helps clients set small, achievable goals and build skills they can use between meetings.

Her work often includes approaches from cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviours, and practise simple ways to calm the body and mind. Sarah also draws on dialectical behaviour therapy and motivational interviewing when these suit a person's needs.

Sarah has experience supporting people through career decisions, life changes, pregnancy and childbirth, postpartum depression and recovery from trauma and abuse. She also helps with social anxiety, relationship concerns and finding a clearer sense of life purpose.

Sessions are conversational and practical. Sarah aims to make therapy feel like a steady, useful conversation where progress is measured in everyday life, not only in the therapy room.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Sarah commonly uses client-centred therapy to create a space where the person's own goals shape each session. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting and helping people make choices that fit their life. Cognitive behavioural therapy is another tool she uses to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviours that improve mood and daily functioning.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Sarah will discuss options, try methods that fit the person's goals, and adjust the plan as needed. Working together means picking techniques that match what the person values and what they want to change.

Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to make sessions flexible. Video is useful when visual cues help the work, phone can suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, and messaging or live chat fits quick updates or when people prefer not to be on camera. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.