Sarah Gensmantel, BACP

Sarah Gensmantel is a Person-Centred (Integrative) counsellor, psychotherapist and life coach with four years of practice. She offers online short and long-term counselling and blends talking therapy with optional holistic tools like breathwork, meditation and mindfulness. Sessions are tailored to the individual and move at a pace that feels right to the client.

She has a strong background in education, specialising in pastoral care and safeguarding. That experience shaped her approach to supporting people who feel overwhelmed or emotionally unsafe. She brings that practical experience into therapeutic work, offering calm, attentive support.

Sarah has a particular interest in trauma, including childhood trauma, though people do not need a trauma history to contact her. She commonly helps with anxiety, depression, low self-worth, grief, addictions and recovery from sexual abuse and rape. Her practice also addresses relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep and eating problems, anger, career stress, and coping with life changes including midlife transitions.

Her therapeutic style is warm and non-judgemental. She listens for both what is said and what is harder to name, and works to understand each person’s world from their viewpoint. Clients are offered practical coping strategies to use between sessions alongside reflective therapy work.

Sarah uses approaches such as attachment-based work, client-centred therapy, cognitive behavioural techniques, mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas. Any additional practices such as yoga are offered only when they fit the person’s needs and preferences.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds influence current feelings. It helps people who struggle with trust, abandonment worries or intense relationship reactions by exploring those patterns and new ways of relating.

Client-centred therapy prioritises the person’s experience. The therapist offers empathic listening and reflection so clients can find their own insights, which is useful for low self-worth, life transitions and emotional overwhelm.

Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. It offers practical strategies for anxiety, depression and coping with stressful situations through experiments and skills to try between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, needs and preferences, and will suggest methods that might fit best. Decisions about pace and techniques are collaborative and can change as therapy progresses.

Confirm the current online session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also support continuity of care when life circumstances shift, while the focus remains on practical coping and building insight.