Sara is a licensed professional counselor, certified supervisor, and trauma clinician with advanced training in complex trauma, dissociative disorders, and community-based mental health care. She is also a proud former Army wife of an Army veteran with over two decades of marriage and a mother of five children, whose ages range from college to preschool.
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Sara received her master’s degree in counseling from Liberty University and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Care and Community Counseling with a specialization in traumatology. Her clinical and scholarly interests include dissociation, identity fragmentation, trauma-related shame, spiritual abuse, and the ways social context, attachment, and meaning-making influence recovery. She approaches treatment from a phase-oriented, evidence-informed framework that prioritizes stabilization, collaboration, pacing, and nervous system regulation.
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Sara specializes in working with individuals experiencing severe and persistent mental health conditions, including major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, substance use disorders, and complex trauma presentations such as PTSD and dissociative spectrum disorders. Her practice also includes a strong focus on women’s issues, autism spectrum presentations, trauma survivors, and individuals within the LGBTQIA+ community. She is committed to providing inclusive, culturally responsive care and works from a pluralistic perspective that respects clients’ diverse identities, belief systems, and lived experiences. Therapy is grounded in consent, transparency, and shared decision-making rather than a single prescribed worldview.

As a trauma therapist and educator, Sara brings both clinical training and personal understanding of complex trauma and dissociation. Her work emphasizes reducing stigma, fostering compassion for dissociative experiences, and supporting clients as they navigate trauma recovery with dignity and agency. In addition to clinical practice, she remains actively engaged in continuing education, supervision, and program development focused on ethical trauma care and community resilience.

Outside of her professional work, Sara enjoys documentaries of all kinds, particularly historical topics, explorations of how things are made, and the occasional deep dive into nostalgic cultural phenomena (including the rise and fall of Blockbuster). She can also often be found binge-watching true crime series.