Meet Sarah

My journey with grief began early when I lost my mother to cancer at age 4. This profound loss was just the beginning—in the years that followed, I would experience the deaths of other important attachment figures, including my grandmother and aunt, all while navigating a childhood shaped by my father's undiagnosed mental health struggles.

As a child moving between homes and caregivers, I learned to be highly attuned to others' emotions while disconnecting from my own. I became the emotional caretaker, adapting to survive in an ever-changing landscape of relationships and environments. These early experiences taught me a powerful truth: healing cannot happen without safety.

My path eventually led me to become a therapist, earning my MA in Couple and Family Therapy, driven by a deep passion to understand myself and support others navigating similar terrain. Yet it wasn't until experiencing my own personal healing crisis—one that required me to pause my clinical work and reevaluate my life path—that I truly began to discover what gentle healing could look like.

Through my own healing journey and professional experience with trauma survivors, I recognized that many of us need something different—a gentler approach that honors our nervous system's need for safety and comfort, coupled with the transformative power of healing in community rather than isolation. While traditional one-on-one therapy serves an important purpose, I've witnessed how shared understanding and collective wisdom can create a unique kind of safety that individual work alone cannot provide.