sarah refvem
she / her
PLPC
individual therapist
my practice:
Hi, I’m Sarah. I am a Provisionally Licensed Professional Therapist (this means I am in the first 2-3 years after graduating with my Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling).
My hope for working together is to provide a space that will support the dignity of your lived experience and facilitate connection and integration with yourself, others, and what is most important to you. I work from a narrative and somatic perspective which means that I view counseling as a collaborative process of learning about the stories of your life, what matters to you, how you see yourself, the world, your strengths, and the problems you face. In working with these stories and what they mean to you, we will identify your preferred ways of being and how you can live in alignment with them. Including your embodied experience, with permission and compassion, in therapy can aid in making discoveries about yourself and living out preferred ways of being.
Areas that I have helped others with include burnout, trauma, spiritual/existential concerns, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. These areas listed are just some examples, ultimately, I seek to collaboratively define the problems you navigate in ways that are meaningful to you. My background also provides a critical understanding of the impact of historical and existing systemic trauma, violence, and oppression. I continue to work to integrate a feminist, de-colonizing, and de-pathologizing ethic.
In 2017 I received a master’s degree in Public Health from Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine. Alongside this, I have received experiential training and/or certification in sound healing, meditation, Yoga Nidra, holistic nutrition, and the use of ceremony/ritual for the purposes of healing mind, body, and spirit.
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