About Me
I work with clients experiencing depression, anxiety disorders, trauma, life transitions, and many other concerns. I have extensive experience working with members of the LGBTQIA+ community. I am particularly passionate about working with trauma survivors. I am also a kink-aware therapist. I use many different treatment modalities, depending on your particular needs. I use elements of person-centered therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, trauma-specific therapies such as cognitive processing therapy, and others. I often use an attachment theory lens to work with relational concerns, focusing on how you attach to others and how you can heal attachment injuries to become more secure with others.
As a therapist, I am centered on relationships. What makes people connect with each other? What makes them disconnect? How can we move past what keeps us apart? How can we form warm, loving, bonded relationships, in which everyone feels safe and valued and free to be themselves? I often hear from my clients that they feel alone, that they long for relationships in which they feel really known and accepted and wanted. I want to help people find those connections.
I think the frameworks that we are offered for relationships are often too narrow and constricting. I take an expansive view of human relationships, encouraging you to create intentional relationships that work well for you and the people you love. Not all relationships fit neatly into the heteronormative boxes of spouse/partner, friend, or acquaintance. I often work with families who practice ethical non-monogamy and other forms of family creation that don’t conform to those expectations. At the same time, some relationships do fit in those boxes, and some people flourish within them. Human connections are complex, and we can be as creative as we want with them! Let’s find the relationship shapes that work for you!
I believe that racism, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism, classism, sizeism, ableism, and all other forms of social oppression destroy our well-being and our capacity to connect. Confronting these systems is absolutely necessary for our individual and collective well-being, so I try to integrate this context into everything we do together. I also believe in the power, beauty, resilience, and creativity of people to challenge and tear down these systems.
To schedule appointments, please contact me via my e-mail address: sarah@deepeningconnections.org.