Sara Torres, LCSW

Sara Torres is a licensed clinical social worker in Utah with seven years of professional experience supporting people through addiction, trauma, and mental health challenges. She centers a strengths-based view, holding that each person is the expert of their own story and that personal resilience and resources are essential to recovery.

Sara works from a trauma-informed perspective and offers trauma-specific, evidence-based care that recognizes how trauma, mental health, and substance use can be interconnected. She meets clients with acceptance and compassion at whatever stage they are in their healing process, and she focuses on practical tools and strategies to promote emotional stability and healthier patterns.

Her practice includes guidance for those coping with addiction, mood concerns, anxiety, grief, relationship and anger issues, and the stresses that accompany life transitions. As an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - she aims to empower clients to build a meaningful and fulfilling life by combining clinical knowledge with individualized support and clear, achievable goals.

Trauma-informed and Addiction-focused Care Online

Sara uses trauma-specific, evidence-based care that focuses on understanding how past experiences shape current emotions and behaviors. This approach helps people process traumatic events and reduce their ongoing impact on daily life.

She also provides addiction-focused interventions that address substance use alongside mental health needs, helping clients identify triggers, develop coping strategies, and build routines that support recovery and stability.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work. Sara collaborates with each client to determine which techniques best match their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit care into busy schedules and to continue support through life transitions. These options help people maintain continuity of care and access licensed professionals from home or work when in-person visits are not possible.