Sara Anderson (she / her)

I am highly trained in trauma recovery, including EMDR, Havening Techniques, polyvagal-informed therapy, and somatic Jungian approaches. My expertise includes medical trauma, surgical complications, misdiagnosis, and injuries such as accidents or burns. I help clients process trauma stored in the body, restore nervous system safety, and reclaim a sense of wholeness. My work integrates evidence-based care with depth psychology for lasting healing.

Anxiety often shows up alongside illness, trauma, and life transitions. I’ve spent decades helping women manage panic, worry, and the nervous system distress that keeps them stuck in fear. My expertise integrates neuroscience-backed tools, somatic awareness, and depth psychology to both reduce symptoms and address root causes. I teach clients how to calm their body, quiet racing thoughts, and cultivate steadiness so they can live with more freedom and confidence.

Anxiety can feel like living with an alarm bell always ringing—racing thoughts, a pounding chest, or the dread of what might go wrong. For women managing illness or big life changes, anxiety can become overwhelming. You don’t have to keep pushing through alone. Together we’ll work with both body and mind to quiet your nervous system, ease spiraling thoughts, and create tools that help you feel grounded, steady, and more able to face whatever comes next.

Medical trauma, accidents, or sudden life events can leave your body stuck in survival mode—nightmares, panic, or the feeling that danger is always near. Even “routine” medical care can retraumatize when you’ve been dismissed or harmed before. Healing is possible. I use somatic and evidence-based approaches like EMDR and Havening to help calm your nervous system, process what happened, and restore a sense of safety so you can move forward with less fear and more steadiness.

Anxiety often shows up alongside illness, trauma, and life transitions. I’ve spent decades helping women manage panic, worry, and the nervous system distress that keeps them stuck in fear. My expertise integrates neuroscience-backed tools, somatic awareness, and depth psychology to both reduce symptoms and address root causes. I teach clients how to calm their body, quiet racing thoughts, and cultivate steadiness so they can live with more freedom and confidence.

PTSD doesn't always look the way people expect. It looks like a body that braces in ordinary moments. A nervous system that never fully came down from high alert. Sensory triggers that activate anxiety that seems disproportionate to what just happened. Patterns that insight alone — and often years of therapy — haven't moved. I use EMDR and Havening Techniques® to gently reach traumatic encoding at the neurological level — so the memory remains but the terror attached to it doesn't.

You're anxious in ways that are getting harder to explain away. Waking at 3 AM with a racing heart. The irritability that surprises you. The overwhelm that nothing on your to-do list fixes. For midlife women, anxiety often has a neurological root in perimenopause that nobody has explained. I work at the level where anxiety actually lives — in the nervous system and the body — using EMDR, Havening Techniques®, and somatic depth work to reach what talk therapy alone cannot.

Midlife asks more of women than anyone warned them about. The hormonal shifts, the identity disruption, the exhaustion of decades of holding everything together — these are not personal failures. They are the predictable consequences of being a woman in a world that has demanded y everything of you. I work with midlife women navigating anxiety, perimenopause, burnout, empty nest, relationship transitions, and the profound question of who you are in the second half of your life.