Sarah uses trauma-informed, state of the art brain-based therapies to address mental health issues including PTSD, trauma, attachment disorders, foster and adoption-related issues, ADHD, learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorder, sleep disorders, migraines, depression, anxiety, and OCD. She grew up in the New Orleans area and was displaced to Portland as a result of hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Since then, Sarah has lived in China, studied trauma recovery in Cambodia in an aftercare facility for children rescued from human trafficking, attended Seminary in Portland, and earned a Master’s Degree in Counseling before returning to Mandeville. Sarah’s passion is to see people recover from the impact of adverse experiences and to learn to value themselves fully.
Sarah's Education includes:
Post Graduate Education
Sarah currently holds 500+ Post Graduate training hours. She holds over 200 hours in Neurofeedback training alone and extensive training in many trauma-informed therapeutic approaches. She has been administering Neurofeedback since 2015.
Speaking Engagements
Sarah's passion when not in the office with clients is to help Christian leaders see trauma through a Biblical lens and to synthesize Biblical and Clinical language. She believes that because we were not built for a world with death and evil, brushes with those very adversaries eventually ricochet into mental health disorders. Sarah is passionate about telling the story of Trauma and Mental Health experiences through her understanding of the Biblical narrative. Jesus came for the traumatized, and oppressed.
Some of her post-graduate education includes: