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Sarah Covert, AMFT
Ages:
Children (4-12)
Teens (13-17)
Young Adults (18-25)
Adults (26-64)
Experience: 1-5 years
Sarah Covert, AMFT
Cognitive Behavioral and ERP Therapist
AMFT #142060, APCC #14855
Sarah helps children, teens, and adults understand what they’re feeling, develop practical coping tools, and build lasting skills for wellness. Sarah draws on proven approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), attachment-based work, and play therapy to help kids move from feeling stuck to feeling empowered.
Sarah knows how important it is to feel supported through life’s hardest moments. As an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and Associate Professional Clinical Counselor, she brings both professional training and personal compassion to her work. She earned her master’s degree in counseling psychology from Santa Clara University while raising her two children, giving her a deep understanding of the challenges families face. Sarah has walked alongside people of all ages through grief, loss, and trauma as part of a grief-support nonprofit’s clinical team in Palo Alto. She also has years of experience helping children and teens thrive, having served as a school therapist at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.
Sarah is a Palo Alto native, and loves to explore California’s natural beauty. She also loves to travel, and has lived abroad for many years. She enjoys reading, learning, outdoor adventure, and making music with her family.
What I Treat:
- Anxiety
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Chronic or Terminal Illness
- Death, Grief, and Loss
- Depression
- Family Problems
- Insomnia
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Panic Attacks
Marriage and Family Therapists are mental health professionals trained in psychotherapy with a family systems influence, and licensed to diagnose and treat mental and emotional disorders that affect individuals, couples, and families. The Federal government has designated marriage and family therapy as a core mental health profession along with psychiatry, psychology, social work and psychiatric nursing. The State of California support and regulate the profession by licensing MFTs.
Educational requirements
Marriage and Family Therapists have graduate training (either a masters or doctoral degree) in counseling psychology with an emphasis in marriage and family therapy. Prior to a rigorous exam process leading to licensure, LMFTs must complete at least 3,000 hours of post-graduate clinical experience under the supervision of a licensed mental health professional. Before full licensure, LMFTs are called “Associates”. LMFTs are employed in a variety of private and public settings, including private practice, community mental health centers, and behavioral managed care organizations.
Do LMFTs only work with clients who are having problems in their marriages and families?
No. While LMFTs are qualified to do couples and family therapy, most LMFTs work with individual adults to not only enhance the quality of their relationships, but also decrease symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress.
How can a LMFT help me?
Like other mental health professionals such as social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists, LMFTs help clients by diagnosing and treating common emotional and behavioral difficulties that interfere with functioning at an optimal level. LMFTs use empirical-supported counseling techniques to help their clients achieve desired goals.