Sarah Rinaldo , LPCC

Sarah Rinaldo offers a steady, nonjudgmental presence for people navigating painful memories, current pressures, and worries about the future. She emphasizes empathy, validation, and practical support throughout the counseling process, meeting each person where they are and helping them build skills to manage stress and emotional pain.

With a clinical focus on trauma, she specializes in treating PTSD and complex PTSD and integrates EMDR as a supplemental tool alongside talk therapy. Her work also addresses anxiety, depression, relationship and family challenges, grief, parenting concerns, and issues related to attachment and codependency. She draws on evidence-informed methods to help clients process difficult experiences and develop healthier patterns in relationships and daily life.

Sarah is a licensed professional clinical counselor - LPCC - which indicates professional training and state licensure in clinical counseling. Over nine years of practice, she has supported people facing panic, mood disorders, self-harm risk, and the strains of life transitions, including needs common to veterans and those coping with guilt, shame, or isolation.

She frames therapy as a collaborative journey, offering guidance, respect, and steadiness as clients explore their histories, strengthen coping strategies, and move toward clearer values and greater emotional balance.

Clinical Approaches and Online Care

Sarah integrates Attachment-Based Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and EMDR into her clinical work. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape expectations and patterns in current relationships and helps people heal attachment injuries and improve emotional connection. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, and panic symptoms. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is offered as a supplemental approach to help process traumatic memories and reduce the intensity of distress related to past events.

Determining the right approach is a collaborative part of treatment. She works with each client to tailor methods to their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress unfolds so therapy stays aligned with what matters most to the client.

Online therapy offers flexibility and accessibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit care into busy schedules, maintain continuity through life transitions, and access licensed professionals and therapists from a convenient location.