Marriage & Family Therapist in Palo Alto, CA
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About Sarah
Sarah is a compassionate and engaged Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist dedicated to helping clients transform their lives. Whether it’s overcoming unhelpful patterns, improving emotional and cognitive skills, or building habits that align with personal values, her focus is always on creating a safe, collaborative, and supportive therapeutic relationship. Infused with creativity, authenticity, and even humor, her approach meets each client where they are.
A Decade of Experience and a Heart-Centered Approach For more than 10 years, Sarah has helped clients connect with their experiences, understand their struggles, and achieve meaningful change. Before becoming a therapist, she spent 20 years as an elementary school teacher, where she also founded The Mindful Kids. This coaching program provided mindfulness tools and positive psychology practices to help children, teens, and parents manage challenges and thrive.
Sarah integrates evidence-based practices with a heart-centered, mindful approach. Her methods include:
With thousands of hours of clinical experience, Sarah tailors her multifaceted approach to each client’s unique needs, always ensuring her methods are evidence-based and client-centered.
A Decade of Experience and a Heart-Centered Approach For more than 10 years, Sarah has helped clients connect with their experiences, understand their struggles, and achieve meaningful change. Before becoming a therapist, she spent 20 years as an elementary school teacher, where she also founded The Mindful Kids. This coaching program provided mindfulness tools and positive psychology practices to help children, teens, and parents manage challenges and thrive.
Sarah integrates evidence-based practices with a heart-centered, mindful approach. Her methods include:
- Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT): For intrusive thoughts and OCD.
- Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP): The gold standard for treating OCD and anxiety-related disorders.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Values-driven approaches to build psychological flexibility.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Addressing patterns of thought and behavior.
- Psychodynamic Therapy: Exploring deeper emotional and relational dynamics.
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Sarah believes that therapy should be authentic, relatable, and informed by the client’s goals. She strives to help clients gain clarity about their challenges, understand how their mind works, and build the tools needed to move forward. She finds constant inspiration in the resilience of people and their capacity for meaningful change when given the right tools and support.
Sarah has extensive experience working with children, teens, and adults facing a wide range of challenges, including:
- Anxiety-related disorders.
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
- Stress and emotional overwhelm.
