Sarah
Hello, I’m Sarah.
I am a warm and empathetic clinician who truly believes everyone has the capacity for growth, healing, and meaningful change. In a world that often asks us to keep moving and pushing through, my sessions offer a space to slow down, get curious, breathe (and then breathe again), and explore what matters most. I don’t offer quick fixes, but can support you to create meaningful and lasting change. Overall, my hope is that you leave sessions feeling more empowered, and equipped to navigate life's challenges.
My approach
I know what it feels like to have a quirky and complex brain, and my work is rooted in helping people develop compassion for the parts of themselves they may not fully understand or find difficult to accept.
I bring a systemic lens to my work, recognising not only the individual (you), but also the influence of family, relationships, culture, and society on our experiences and ways of coping.
I am passionate about providing neuroaffirming, trauma-informed, and collaborative care, adapting my approach to suit the unique needs of each person I work with. My practice draws on a range of evidence-based approaches, including Bowen Family Systems Theory, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Compassion-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy.
While each of these frameworks informs my work, Internal Family Systems (IFS) aligns most closely with my values as a clinician.
Having recently completed Level 1 IFS training, I am particularly drawn to its emphasis on curiosity, somatics and self-compassion as pathways to healing, growth, and meaningful change. If you're curious about IFS, I'd be happy to tell you more about the approach in session and whether it might resonate with your goals for therapy.
What is IFS?
Internal Family Systems is an evidence-based approach to therapy that sees the mind as naturally made up of different parts.
You might notice a part of you that pushes hard to get everything done, another that wants to hide under the covers, and another that carries old hurt. In IFS, none of these parts are seen as bad or broken. Each one is trying to help you in its own way, often in response to something difficult it has lived through.
Beneath all of these parts is what IFS calls the Self: a calm, curious and compassionate core that everyone has, even when it feels hard to reach. Therapy focuses on getting to know your parts from this place, so they can soften, heal and stop working quite so hard.
The inner critic, the people-pleaser, the worrier. We meet them with curiosity rather than trying to get rid of them.
The steady, compassionate centre in all of us. Healing happens as your parts begin to trust it.
IFS pays gentle attention to what you feel physically, not just what you think, as a way into what each part needs.
IFS can be helpful for adults working through anxiety, trauma, perfectionism, self-criticism, or a sense of being at war with yourself.
How I can help
I work with a range of presentations, including neurodivergence and associated executive functioning challenges, anxiety, trauma, grief and loss, perfectionism, life transitions, and stress management.
Much of my early career has been spent supporting young men as they navigate adolescence and emerging adulthood. Journeying alongside young people during this formative stage of life has been deeply meaningful.
Sarah is seeing clients 18+.
Sessions are in person on Saturdays.