Sara deCarvalho
Hi! I'm a licensed mental health counselor living in Savannah, GA, licensed in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. I've been doing this work for 15 years, in settings ranging from community-based support to inpatient, partial hospital, and integrated primary care.
I tend to utilize interventions across CBT, DBT, with a foundation of life experience, circumstance, and trauma stored within the body.
I lean on evidence based strategies like CBT and DBT, but the real foundation is understanding how life experience and trauma live in the body, not just the mind. My job is to help you figure out what "better" actually looks like for you, then build a space where we can get there together.
First session
We'll start with the getting-to-know-you stuff: what's bringing you in, what's been going on, what you're hoping shifts. No pressure to have it all figured out. I just want a real picture of where you're at so we can build from there.
Strengths
My approach is person-centered, with a real focus on authentic expression and learning to cope with an overstimulating world. Sessions with me might include a laugh, a tarot pull, or a look at your horoscope, but we're also doing the real work: naming the patterns you want to change, understanding how they formed (and how they may have actually served you at one point), and figuring out what change genuinely looks like for you.
Ideal clients
I do my best work with people who are ready to look at their trauma and life history and connect the dots to the patterns showing up now. Maybe you sense where certain reactions come from, or maybe you know something keeps repeating. If you're curious about why you do what you do, not just how to stop it, we'll get along well.
Treatment methods
Person-centered (Rogerian)
My approach is centered in helping patients find strengths and self compassion in themselves, in order to process and work through their life experiences and patterns thereof.
Location
Virtual sessions
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Licensed in
- ConnecticutLicense 46.005698
- MassachusettsLicense LMHC10436
- Rhode IslandLicense MHC01015