LMFT, 9 years of experience
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Hi, I’m Sarah - a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and Alternative Healing Arts Practitioner who is devoted to supporting individual and collective healing. I offer an innovative approach that fuses traditional psychotherapy with psychedelics & energetics, stemming from the recognition that we are consciousness and energy beings. We won’t just talk about your problems, my mission is to support you in accessing and addressing the energetic, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of your struggles. These cannot be changed by the level of the thinking mind, we must go deeper. My work includes using processes such as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to support you with inner child healing, attachment repair, emotional wound processing, nervous system regulation and imprinting new beliefs into the mind/field. I value creating a safe space for you to access and process the deep emotional wounds & traumas, energetic blocks and cognitive conditioning keeping you stuck in unhelpful patterns or out of alignment with your soul. I view my primary role as being a steadfast transmitter of love, acceptance and safety to you, so that your inner healing intelligence can guide your work. I have expertise in the treatment of eating disorders, specifically bulimia and binge eating disorder, with nearly two decades of experience in the field and having achieved my own recovery from bulimia. Formerly, I directed a behavioral health program at a premier wellness center; ran an IOP/PHP for binge eating disorder at UCSD; and conducted research on the psychology of eating habits at Yale University.
In our first session together, my priority is getting to know you and building trusting, safe rapport together. We'll begin with introductions, and then dive into the specific challenges you're facing and what your goals are in working together. I'll also inquire about your life history to help me understand your life arc and all that has shaped you. Then, together we'll create a tailored plan and road map for us to work through in follow-up sessions.
I have developed an extensive tool kit of modalities that I integrate to best support you in your journey of expanding self-awareness, deep inner healing, supportive behavior change and alignment with soul purpose. Some of my greatest strengths as a provider are that: - I hold the transmission and frequency of your whole healed self in alignment with your highest vision for yourself. And in that container, we then identify anything that is blocking you or in a lower resonance than that, whether it's a limiting belief, an emotional wound or fractured, fragmented soul energies that don't belong to you. Then we go through very intentionally designed flow of experiences to support your soul and psyche in shedding the habits of the past and reconditioning your mind and body into a new way of being, thinking and feeling in relationship to food and in relationship to self. - I work with consciousness and understand how to tap into the field of intelligence that actually orchestrates and does the healing for you, through you and within you. As a practitioner, I hold a field of awareness to envelop you and allow the spontaneous, emergent wisdom to reveal moment by moment exactly what it is you need. - I hold the mirror and transmission of who you truly are. I will be the voice of compassion when you're caught in your critic. I will be the voice of encouragement when you have no hope and want to give up. I will remind you of all the ways you succeed, when you feel like a failure. I will challenge your thoughts and language when you unconsciously speak. I will point you to the shadows when you don't want to look and I will always bring in the light, no matter what. - I have a knack for tuning into your emotional body and helping you access and process frozen or repressed energies from your past. I'm especially good at working with your inner child and teen parts that have been neglected, retrieving their wisdom and integrating them back into an embodied self.
I love working with individuals who are committed to their healing, expansion and growth and are on a spiritual or conscious path of service. You understand that in order to best serve your purpose- whether as a parent, entrepreneur or healer- that you must take care of yourself and address the internal blocks that keep you stuck in suffering and out of alignment with your highest self and authentic way of being. You are a great fit as a client if you: - Are eager to improve, but don't yet have the tools needed to make this goal a reality. - Often feel stuck, overwhelmed and anxious and desire support managing these so you can feel better in how you respond to life. - Get caught in unhelpful thinking loops, poor body image, unhealthy eating patterns, emotional pain or other problematic coping behaviors. - Intuitively know that you need to take better care of yourself and understand that you are carrying emotional baggage from the past and your childhood. - Are highly motivated to do deep inner work and healing, and desire a skilled guide who can help you access your shadows and subconscious, bringing light to the innermost parts needing healing. - Find that you turn to food to self sooth or cope with unpleasant emotions - Are open to alternative modalities, such as energy work, and have interest in psychedelic, spiritual or energetic aspects of healing. - Are highly self-aware and have a lot of knowledge about your problems, but need help actually processing the stored emotions and energies in the body.
I'm trained to facilitate attachment repair using somatics, inner child healing and emotional freedom technique. I help you uncover your unmet childhood needs that have shaped your attachment style and thus influence your behaviors/patterns in your adult relationships. We uncover the specific protective patterns you've developed to protect you from rejection, abandonment and pain. I then guide you to process any stuck emotions/wounds from childhood and create repair and corrective experiences where you get to experience having your needs met. This creates healthy, secure attachment imprints in your nervous system and subconscious that over time shape your overall attachment style and way of connecting with others. The goal is to be able to learn how to reparent your inner child and self-regulate so that you can engage in relationships as a mature, secure, confident, open hearted adult.
I am certified in Integrative Somatic Parts Work (Levels 1, 2 & 3) through the Embody Lab. With this system, I guide you from the mind into the body to connect with the wisdom that resides there. We use the somatic sensations of the body to connect to the various parts of yourself that have strong emotions or beliefs that are impacting you. We learn how to curiously and compassionately connect with your inner parts, including child and teen parts that have been frozen in time, and help them unburden the pain they've carried, meet their unmet needs, and liberate them back into your whole Self so you can live from your heart and authentic self.
I am a firm believer that building the mindfulness muscle is an essential part of anyone's healing and growth journey. You must cultivate an expanded state of awareness in order to become more mindful of your physical sensations, emotions, beliefs, triggers and patterns. And as you become mindful of these energies arising in the present moment, you then are in a position of power to choose how to respond rather than stay stuck in unconscious reactions. In every session I will guide you through a mindfulness practice, such as a guided meditation or body scan, in order to support you in cultivating more expanded states of self awareness. In my opinion, this is one of the most important practices to incorporate into your daily life and inner work process.
Beyond the psychotherapy modalities listed above, I take an integrative approach that addresses what I call the 5 bodies of health- the physical, mental, emotional, energetic and soul body. I do not view you as broken nor like to amplify focus on just the presenting symptom or problem. Rather, I view the whole of your being from the physical self all the way to the soul/spiritual self. I integrate my training as an energy healer into sessions as well, supporting you in understanding the energetics of your being and how to move energy blocks so you can liberate stuck emotions and amplify the embodiment of your soul energy and living in alignment to your soul purpose and heart guidance.
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February 6, 2025
Sarah is incredible. Meets me where I am. Never judges me, but does challenge my thinking. She provides useful tools in every session to help work through whatever I am going through in that moment. Can't recommend her highly enough!