Sara specializes in those times “when things fall apart”: grief and loss, divorce, cancer, faith transitions, and similar midlife metamorphoses. She gives you tools to cope, heal, connect to authenticity and joy, and rebuild “your one wild and precious life.”

Sara is also a dating therapist. The modern dating landscape feels chaotic and demoralizing to many for lots of reasons. Sara helps you identify who you are and what you are looking for, then figure out what has been preventing you from getting what you want. Using trauma-informed and attachment-based methods from therapy, as well as practical coaching methods, she helps you navigate the chaos so you can reach your goals of connection, attachment, and healthy relationships.

What is Sara like as a therapist? Sara is an integrative therapist, bringing together person-centered therapy, existential therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills, and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). She has been trained in the trauma modality Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART). She is logical and analytical, with a previous degree in computer science and career in software engineering, which leads her to have good rapport with technical engineering types, philosophical types, the intellectually gifted, and other people who live in their head (and need encouragement to feel emotions). She brings a wealth of life experience to her work: she is a 19-year breast cancer survivor, is thriving on the other side of her own faith transition-divorce-dating-remarriage midlife journey, and has two children on the autism spectrum. She has an appetite for learning and reading.

Sara received her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Northwestern University. She received a bachelor’s degree in English from Brigham Young University and a second bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Utah Valley University.

Sara is an Associate Clinical Mental Health Counselor in Utah.

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