Sarah Watt, LMHC

Sarah Watt is a licensed mental health counselor who brings a trauma-informed, compassionate approach to therapy. She holds the credential LMHC, which stands for Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and she is also a certified clinical trauma professional and a certified sex addiction counselor - qualifications that reflect focused training in trauma recovery and sexual addiction treatment. She frames her work as counselor, mentor, coach, and supporter, meeting clients where they are and walking alongside them through life’s challenges.

Her clinical path began in Northeast Ohio, where she volunteered before formalizing her training. She earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 2003 and a master’s degree in counseling from John Carroll University in 2007. A family loss prompted a move to Florida, where she planted personal and professional roots and later opened a small private practice in 2017. Over a 15-year career she has worked across diverse settings including inpatient hospital care, community mental health, residential treatment, in-school therapy, and outpatient services.

Sarah has guided people through dissociative disorders, trauma, addiction, grief, relationship and intimacy challenges, mood disorders, ADHD, parenting concerns, career stress, and many other life transitions. Her clinical toolkit includes client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, EMDR, and relational methods such as the Gottman approach. She emphasizes the therapeutic relationship as central to progress and invites prospective clients to connect by phone or video to determine fit before beginning work together.