Sarah Manning, LMFT
Sarah Manning is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over ten years of experience helping individuals, teens, couples, and families navigate emotional struggles, relationship challenges, and patterns that feel hard to break. She brings a calm, supportive presence and a thoughtful, evidence-based approach to therapy, helping clients feel understood while also gaining practical tools for real change.
Sarah works with clients experiencing anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, and compulsive or problematic behaviors, including issues related to pornography use and substance use. She takes a whole-person approach, looking beyond symptoms to understand the deeper factors contributing to distress—such as family dynamics, past experiences, biology, personality traits, and learned coping patterns. This allows therapy to be both compassionate and effective.
A core part of Sarah’s work is empowering clients with skills they can use outside of sessions. Drawing from her extensive training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), she helps clients build emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness skills, often incorporating between-session practice to support lasting progress.
Sarah also specializes in couples therapy and is trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the gold-standard approach for relationship work. She helps couples understand the negative cycles that keep them feeling disconnected and guides them toward more secure, emotionally responsive interactions. In sessions, Sarah supports partners in staying regulated so they can truly hear one another, reduce defensiveness, and rebuild trust and closeness.
Specialties
• Anxiety and depression
• Emotional regulation and coping skills
• Compulsive and problematic behaviors
• Adolescent mental health and self-harm support
• Parent coaching and family therapy
• Couples therapy and relationship repair
Education & Training
Sarah earned her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Brigham Young University and her master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Arizona State University. Her clinical experience began in residential treatment, where she worked with adolescent young women struggling with suicidal ideation and self-harm, while also supporting parents through coaching and family therapy. She has since worked in outpatient settings with individuals and couples, continuing to deepen her clinical expertise.
Outside of therapy, Sarah enjoys life with her husband, four children, and their three doodles. She loves cooking, staying active, reading, spending time outdoors, and exploring new places.