Hi I’m Sarah, & this is my story.

I believe there is medicine and meaning to be found in telling the story of our life and witnessing other people tell theirs. My passion for tending stories forms the bedrock of my professional pursuits and personal values. This lifelong passion integrates my various identities as a wife, mother, licensed counselor, poet, content creator, parts work mentor, yoga teacher, and writer.

Stories help us experience catharsis, develop self-awareness, and express our truth, the truth that liberates and alchemizes, not just for our own benefit, but for all of humanity. Stories heal. Stories offer redemption. Stories empower. My life’s work is this never-ending business of self reclamation and story medicine. I hope to forever trace circles of meaning and embody passion for living the great myth of our lives. It is an honor to engage this sacred work. It is an honor to be witnessed and to witness.

My mission is to help you experience the embodied wisdom of your whole self.

I am an IFS therapist, parts work mentor, writer, and post-lineage yoga teacher who specializes in complex trauma, addictions, and relationships. I have a Master’s Degree is in Marriage and Family Therapy and am triply licensed as a LAC, LAMFT, and LCADC. I have extensive experience working with populations recovering from substance use disorders and acute and complex trauma in the private practice, IOP, and residential treatment settings. I am trained in Internal Family Systems Therapy, The Gottman Method, Somatic Attachment Therapy, and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy.

Most importantly, I believe that people heal when they feel seen and understood for their authentic selves and that healing happens in relationship.

My professional background informs my work of holding space beyond my role as a counselor. I am a post-lineage yoga teacher (ERYT-500) who has studied, practiced, and taught kriya and ashtanga yoga under Manju Jois, classical Sanskrit with the American Sanskrit Institute, and Shakta Tantra with Dr. Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Swami Satyasangananda Saraswati. I have been published in academic and literary journals such as Parts and Self and I write regularly for my Substack journal, Whole Self Journal. I have a book focused on CPTSD and IFS forthcoming with New Harbinger Publications.

Most importantly, my creative and embodied practices inform my own journey of healing and process of becoming.

Professional Qualifications

  • MA Marriage and Family Therapy, 2022

    Internal Family Systems Therapy Level 1, 2022

    Gottman Method Level 1, 2022

    Embody Lab’s Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Program, 2023

    Embody Lab’s Somatic Attachment Therapy Program, 2023

    Crisis Prevention Training Level 1, 2023

    An Apprenticeship with Sorrow Grief Ritual Training with Francis Weller, 2023

  • Cakra Shuddhi, Rikhiapeeth Ashram, 2020

    Sanskrit Level 1, American Sanskrit Institute, 2020

    300-hour Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training, Trishula Yoga, 2019

    Yoga Therapy Teacher Training, 2020 and 2018Manju Jois

    Primary Series Teacher Training, Manju Jois, 2017

    200-hour Vinyasa Teacher Training, 2013

  • “Moxie and Good Chaos,”Parts and Self

    “The Medicine of Integration”, Embody Lab Blog

    “Embodied Repair For Couples”,Parts and Self

    “The Importance of Inner Child Work and How Childhood Issues Seep Into Your Dating Life”, Sabrina Zohar Show

    “Building The In-Between Generation”, The Reprogram with Ann Odom

  • Board member, The Healing And CPTSD Foundation

    Ambassador, The Embody Lab

    Facilitator, The Healing and CPTSD Community