How We Help

ABOUT

Sarah has been working in the helping professions for 15 years.  Her passion for helping others though, started in childhood. Her father had a near death experience when she was 2 years old causing many changes in the home and in her parents lives.  She in turn took on several different roles and became very resilient and malleable in order to manage through these changes.  As a result, she grew to recognize these adaptive skills as a gift and has utilized them professionally as she has followed this calling.  

Professionally, she first started her journey in Cleveland, OH in 2003 working as a service coordinator with a wide array of client issues.  The focus was working in subsidized housing to create a supportive and educational environment for all tenants.  From there she moved into the world of community mental health.  Every client had very individualized needs and she began to harness her creativity and personality more and more in the work she was providing.  Everyone deserves the best care possible and she was ready and willing to offer it despite the obstacles of their disabling mental health issues.  She worked to meet each client where they were at to help build the relationship necessary to see them through important changes.  This is also where Sarah began to have a strong interest in working with trauma.  She ran PTSD groups focusing on skills building and emotional tools to cope with the pain of the past and integrate these memories.  She saw a profound need for this service as she was witnessing first-hand the profound impact it has on development of debilitating conditions.  Some examples included; agoraphobia, generalized anxiety, borderline personality, obsessive compulsive disorder, major depression, and addictions.  Despite her love of this community and her clients she chose to relocate out of state, following completion of her Master's in Counseling at John Carroll University, to be closer to her immediate family.  

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Several years later, she started  a family of her own and she found an environment to grow and flourish in even more.  She spent a year working with children and families throughout Marion County offering coaching services, counseling to both the child and family, and building plans towards the future.  This work was done in the schools, homes, and community with special emphasis on meeting the child and family where they are needing the most clinical support.  This was a very special opportunity and one which Sarah intends to resume work in.  She feels strongly that if she can help the family and the children earlier on, there will be less long-term effects such as addictions or mental health issues.  Proactive approaches must be made to help this community and the world at large.  Her last experience took her into a residential treatment facility focusing on trauma and addictions.  This experience has helped her to develop further skills, understanding, and drive to help battle PTSD, complex trauma, dissociation, addictions, and other mental health issues.  

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She utilizes family systems, inner child work, EMDR, person-centered approaches, addictions model, narrative therapy, exposure based interventions, sex addiction treatment, experiential techniques, and mind/body techniques to address a wide range of mental health issues and treat the whole individual.