Get to Know the Services Sara Provides.

Trauma can be found throughout the human experience. Sara recognizes that life-happens and supports you through all types of trauma, including:

• Aging: Whether serving a senior who impacts their mental health due to aging, coping with serious illness, or losing a loved one. Sara supports her clients through their grief, social isolation, or loneliness.

• Adoption: Adoptees may experience various mental health effects from the absence of biological family, genealogical bewilderment, or learning about adoption as an adult. Sara provides young adults and adults with support through adoption trauma.

• Anxiety: Persistent and excessive worry can seriously interfere with daily activities and can cause physical symptoms, including restlessness, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, muscle tension, and problems sleeping. Sara supports those experiencing anxiety to improve their life experiences.

• Alzheimers/Dementia: Patients with these diseases can experience intense feelings of confusion, frustration, anger, fear, uncertainty, grief, and depression. Sara works with senior patients suffering from these illnesses and adults, supporting them in optimizing their mental health.

• Borderline Personality: Intense mood swings and uncertainty about how individuals with borderline personality disorder can cause major problems in one’s life. Sara helps patients cope with changing feelings, unstable relationships, and emotional pain.

• Codependency: Patients with this emotional and behavioral condition often see the impact on their ability to have healthy, mutually satisfying relationships. Sara works with those with this condition to uncover and resolve their patterns to improve their lives.

• Coping Skills: Sara helps patients develop coping skills to help them tolerate, minimize, and deal with stressful situations in life. When you can better cope, you can feel better physically and psychologically to perform at your best throughout life.

• Depression: Depressive disorder can impact one’s mood and cause a loss of pleasure or interest in activities, relationships, and life. Sara helps those with depression navigate and become stronger for everyday life.

• Divorce: Whether you are impacted by divorce as an adult or were impacted by your parent’s divorce as a child, Sara helps patients improve depression, anxiety, grief, and trauma surrounding this particular situation.

• Emotional Disturbance: When experiencing an emotional disturbance, one’s physical, social, and cognitive skills can also be affected. Sara helps individuals cope with their mental health to improve all areas of their life.

• Grief: When grieving, one might feel or act differently compared to their typical behavior. Difficulty concentrating, withdrawal, not enjoying usual activities, drinking, smoking, and even thoughts of hurting themselves may be present. Sara helps those going through grief with direct support and therapy.

• Infertility: Up to 40% of women experiencing infertility experience depression or anxiety. And both men and women going through IVF experience higher levels of anxiety and depression. Sara helps women and men experiencing infertility cope with their experiences through counseling.

• Infidelity: Infidelity can negatively impact a partner in many ways, including depression, anxiety, PTSD, decreased self-esteem, attachment issues, and more. Sara helps patients who have experienced the trauma of infidelity copy through therapy and counseling.

• LGBTQ+: LGBTQ individuals are more than twice as likely to have a mental health disorder in their lifetime. Sara works with patients to provide mental health support no matter the individual’s experiences.

• Pet Loss: Losing a pet can cause one to experience grief, confusion, and trouble focusing, leading to anxiety and depression for some people. Sara helps patients who have experienced the trauma of losing their pets cope and live their best lives.

• Self-Esteem: Low self-esteem can reduce the quality of a person’s life in many ways, including negative feelings and constant self-criticism, leading to persistent feelings of sadness, depression, anxiety, anger, shame, or guilt. Through counseling, Sara helps individuals dealing with self-esteem problems improve their mental health and quality of life.

• Self-Harm: Oftentimes, those who self-harm change their emotional pain into physical pain, reducing overwhelming emotional feelings or thoughts and giving them a sense of control or escape from traumatic memories. Sara helps individuals experiencing self-harm cope with the root of their mental health trauma and grief to improve their experiences in daily life.

• Women’s Issues: Women are more likely than men to be carers of mental health problems which can lead to stress, anxiety, and isolation. Sara helps women experiencing mental health problems cope in a healthy way through therapy and counseling to improve their everyday lives.