Sarika Griffin, LCSW, LISW

Sarika Griffin is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing relationship strain, addiction, trauma, and major life changes. She holds LCSW and LISW credentials and works from Nebraska. Her style is warm and direct and she focuses on practical steps people can use right away.

She builds a steady, respectful space to talk through painful memories and current struggles. Sessions often look at relationship patterns, attachment, and how past wounds affect present choices. Sarika emphasizes small, doable steps to manage stress, mood, and cravings rather than distant theory.

Sarika draws on several approaches to tailor care to each person. She uses attachment-based ideas to map relational patterns, cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and motivational interviewing to strengthen a person’s own reasons for change. These methods are used together to address issues like substance use, codependency, self-esteem, and grief.

She pays attention to culture and identity and works with people from diverse backgrounds, including LGBT clients. Sarika also helps with anger, intimacy-related concerns, guilt and shame, and compassion fatigue. Her work includes supporting recovery from sexual assault and domestic violence when those topics arise.

People meet her to rebuild a sense of control, cope with life transitions, and find clearer direction and self-love. She brings eight years of clinical experience and a focus on practical tools that fit everyday life.

How therapy approaches translate to remote care

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. In practice this means identifying recurring relationship habits and testing new ways of relating in small steps that feel manageable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses straightforward exercises to try different responses and reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, or urges tied to substance use. Motivational Interviewing helps people explore their own reasons for change and strengthen commitment; it is useful when someone feels stuck or uncertain about recovery.

Finding the right mix of approaches is a shared process. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then suggest a path forward. That plan can be adjusted over time as needs and circumstances change.

Confirm current session options before booking since specific formats are not listed in the profile. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, shorten commutes, and reduce the time a session takes out of a workday. It can also allow for shorter check-ins when needed or conversations without video if that suits someone better. Licensed professionals use these formats to help people apply therapeutic tools to real life and keep momentum between sessions.