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Sarika Griffin

Healing relationships and personal growth

LCSW, LISW Nebraska

Experience
8 years in practice
Focus areas
Relationship, Trauma and abuse, Anger
Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Attachment-Based Therapy
Languages
English

About Sarika

Sarika Griffin is a licensed clinical social worker with eight years of experience helping people navigate relationship challenges, trauma, and major life transitions. Holding LCSW and LISW credentials (FL LCSW SW19612, IA LISW 115284), she integrates trauma-informed perspectives with practical interventions to support emotional healing and behavior change.

Background and approach

Her work often addresses concerns such as anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, and intimacy-related struggles while attending to multicultural factors and experiences of prejudice and discrimination. She emphasizes a collaborative, strengths-based approach that centers each person’s lived experience and cultural context.

Using a combination of evidence-informed techniques, Sarika helps clients build coping skills, improve self-esteem, and repair attachment wounds that affect relationships and overall well-being. Her practice also focuses on issues like codependency, family of origin dynamics, control issues, and recovery from sexual assault and domestic violence.

Sarika aims to create a respectful, empowering environment where people can clarify values, develop practical strategies, and work toward meaningful change. She offers flexible online formats and tailors interventions to individual goals, helping clients move from isolation and shame toward greater self-compassion and resilience.

Online approaches for trauma and relationship work

Many of the techniques Sarika uses translate well to online settings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and reshaping unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and mood disorders through structured, skills-based work. Attachment-Based Therapy explores early relational patterns and how they affect current relationships, helping people understand and change interaction habits that contribute to intimacy and connection difficulties.

Choosing the right approach typically happens collaboratively. The therapist works with each person to assess goals, preferences, and presenting concerns, then blends methods such as CBT, attachment work, or client-centered support to fit what the client needs. This collaborative process allows plans to be adjusted as therapy progresses and new priorities emerge.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to attend sessions without travel and to maintain continuity during life changes. These formats support ongoing skill practice, check-ins between sessions, and convenient access to a licensed professional while tailoring session type to what best suits the client’s schedule and comfort.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Sarika address?
She works with a wide range of issues including relationship problems, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and compassion fatigue, as well as related concerns like codependency, self-esteem, and isolation.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Sarika uses a trauma-informed, client-centered approach that combines practical skill building with attention to attachment patterns and cultural context to promote lasting change.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has eight years of experience working in clinical settings and applying therapies aimed at trauma recovery, relationship dynamics, and multicultural concerns.
What credentials and location are listed for her?
She holds LCSW and LISW credentials with license details FL LCSW SW19612 and IA LISW 115284, and she practices in Nebraska.
Does she provide services in other languages or to international clients?
She provides services in English and is not currently accepting international clients.
Which session formats does she offer?
Sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to accommodate different preferences and schedules.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with the client’s location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Relationship issuesTrauma and abuseAnger managementSelf esteemCoping with life changes

Also works with

Stress, AnxietyAddictionsLGBTFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesDepressionCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

Attachment issuesCodependencyControl issuesDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsGuilt and shameIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMood disordersMulticultural concernsPrejudice and discriminationSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseWomen's issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Motivational InterviewingSolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

8+ years

Licensed

Florida, Nebraska, Iowa

Languages

English