About Sarah

Devoted to women’s issues for over 25 years, Sarah is a clinical social worker who created A Space for Wise Women to help guide women to heal and access their inner strength through her private practice (Rite of Passage Psychotherapy) and psycho-educational courses, community and empowerment practice materials.

Practice

Through her private practice, Sarah specializes in women’s issues, focusing on life transitions, trauma, mood disorders (particularly during the perinatal period and adolescence), and women's health throughout their lifespan. In addition to working with individuals, Sarah also runs weekly women’s empowerment groups (A Space for Me) from her office in Saint Louis.

Coming from a strength-based, relational, feminist perspective, Sarah employs a number of trauma-informed and evidence-based treatment modalities—from cognitive-behavioral therapy and mindfulness to family systems and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). Tapping into her personal creativity and utilizing Trauma-Informed Expressive Arts Therapy allows her to integrate the learning into an individual’s therapeutic experience in order to match the unique needs of every woman.

Experience

Sarah is an experienced educator, having taught as an adjunct professor at Washington University’s graduate school of social work for over a decade and having led innumerable psycho-educational groups throughout her decades of experience. Sarah continues to create curricula for A Space for Me Women’s Empowerment Groups on topics specific to the ever changing needs of women, providing women with the education, skills, tools, and materials needed to embody the wisest versions of themselves. A Space for Wise Women is the culmination of her life’s work dedicated to addressing the needs of the women.

Service

Throughout her years of service to women, Sarah has worked as an advocate for survivors of sexual assault and interpersonal violence, created early intervention programs for adolescents and their families in Dublin, Ireland, worked as a Perinatal Social Worker at Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, and Reproductive Health Services. She was an adolescent therapist for girls at a private school, coordinated care for pregnant and postpartum women through her position as the Missouri Coordinator of Postpartum Support International, and supported women in pregnancy and delivery as a certified doula. Currently, Sarah serves as a Clinical Advisor for the HER Foundation, a global organization raising awareness, researching, and supporting women impacted by Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG). As a survivor of HG, she has used her voice to research and present on the emotional impact of this devastating health condition as well as started a free, international support group that she continues to facilitate through the HER Foundation.

Personal

Sarah practices what she teaches. Her favorite and most soothing empowerment practices involve connecting with loved ones, being in nature, dancing and singing by the campfire, creating expressive art, crafting, studying the cosmos, and playing guitar in her hammock.