Sarah is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist (#1179) in the state of Tennessee and holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Drama Therapy from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. She is also a Registered Drama Therapist with the North American Drama Therapy Association, and in February, 2020, Sarah received her designation as an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. She founded Creative Counseling Nashville in 2016. She is a co-founder of Experience Therapy Group, a larger practice offering multiple individual therapists as well as groups and other services, which opened in June, 2022.

Sarah has special training in EMDR, Brainspotting (Phase II), Somatic Experiencing® (Advanced level), and drama therapy and expressive arts, in addition to drawing from attachment and psychodynamic concepts, Buddhist psychology, CBT, behavioral, and solution-focused therapies. She tailors her approach to each client, but strongly believes in the importance of the body and the senses to support integration and growth.

Sarah has a background as an actor and theater educator. It was her passion for the cathartic power of self-expression that led her to psychology and to studying the application of creative forms for therapeutic means. We could all use little more fun and playfulness in our lives, and healing is only enhanced by creative thinking and a touch of humor.

Sarah especially enjoys working with people struggling to own their full selves, women who are highly achieving but feeling empty, anxious, or stuck, people who are ready to delve into their mind-body-spirit more deeply in their healing, and people struggling with the relational trauma of a narcissistic or otherwise emotionally immature parent. She has experience working with people recovering from religious or spiritual injury, people struggling with unknown somatic symptoms, and people recovering from complex, single-event, or attachment trauma.

Sarah has been featured on podcasts, presented for professional organizations such as Nashville Psychotherapy Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Grand Rounds, and the TN AMFT Conference, and has been a guest lecturer for Vanderbilt Human Development Counseling and Northcentral University’s graduate programs. She is also a proud co-creator of the Improv for Anxiety class at Unscripted Improv.

When not attending to her clients or furthering her clinical education, Sarah enjoys hikes, yoga and meditation, cooking, making crafty things, seeing art, being completely silly with her niece and nephew, and connecting with her amazing friends and weird family. Sarah has called both New York City and San Francisco home, and she is happy to have created a home in Nashville with her husband and dog Dennis.