Sarah is currently in private practice doing therapy and clinical supervision, but she has extensive experience working with people with multiple vulnerabilities and challenges, including homelessness, mental illness, addiction, trauma history, criminal justice, and personality disorders typically related to attachment and intergenerational trauma. She has worked in community-based, crisis and residential settings, and have more than a decade of experience doing group therapy as well as individual.

For clients Sarah starts with an attachment focus, and uses psychoeducation, EMDR, DBT, and supportive/relational psychotherapy to work toward client-identified goals. She wants to help people feel empowered to make choices and understand their situation, communicate in a healthy way, and self-advocate and set goals related to quality of life, not illness. She is also trained in trauma related dissociation and often uses parts work to help clients gain better insight and distress tolerance.

Sarah is an LGBTQ ally and strives to be an antiracist - she invites these topics into the supervision space as well. Overall she uses a relational model, exploring what plays out in the supervision relationship and how it relates to client work. She encourages her supervisees to find their “self” and use it in therapy. Supervision prioritizes client crises, countertransference, and ethical issues, and then dives into case consultation, conceptualization, diagnosis, treatment planning, and interventions. Sarah has a particular interest in clients with personality disorders and helps supervisees explore this common facet of mental health with their clients as well.

Sarah has supervised LMSWs doing outpatient, crisis and residential work, and working with a variety of client populations. She feels that group supervision allows for the most learning while individual allows for personal growth related to challenging situations, so she prefer to provide a combination of group/individual to give people the best of both worlds.

The cost of supervision is a flat $300 per month and that includes one individual session and up to 5 group sessions per month.