Sarah has her Master’s degree and advanced doctoral studies in Marriage and Family Therapy. Sarah works with children, families and couples struggling with divorce, emotional distress, school issues, eating disorders, self-harm, and addictions. Her specialties include helping children with reactive attachment, children and adults with interpersonal trauma, such as but not limited to attachment issues, assault, domestic violence, interpersonal violence, incest, abuse, and neglect. She is trained to assist those who have experienced combat exposure, traumatic loss, natural disaster, or vehicular accidents. In Sarah’s opinion, the experiences of oppression and stigmatization are also forms of complex trauma and she works with this from a trauma and culturally-sensitive standpoint.

As a systems therapist, Sarah values a collaborative approach when working with clients in co-creating and maintaining a sense of safety and openness to work through life stressors, together. She believes change occurs through relationships and that the connection created can bring us all toward greater healing and being the best version of ourselves we can be.

Sarah’s trainings and certifications include Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) and 2nd level training in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, a specialized model for working with children having attachment issues. She has presented at national and local conferences and has published literature within the mental health field on the impact of trauma. Sarah has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at Syracuse University and SUNY Polytechnic Institute as well as lecturing at Syracuse University and Ithaca College on topics of attachment, trauma, and PTSD. Her goal is to de-pathologize the impact of traumatic experiences for clients.

Sarah is theoretically informed by Interpersonal Neurobiology, Bowen Family Systems, Collaborative Change Model, Narrative, Experiential, Trauma, and Attachment Theories.

Sarah offers virtual therapy-phone and video-exclusively. Her fee is $120.00 and she is in network with a few insurances for individual mental health treatment. Some out of network coverage may be available as well, including for Excellus.

Sarah’s pronouns are she and her.