Sara Hunter MA, LPC, LMHC

You can understand a pattern intellectually and still feel your body react before you have a chance to choose differently. Somatic therapy helps us slow down and listen to what your nervous system is communicating. We'll explore the sensations, emotions, and protective responses that arise beneath your thoughts, building the capacity to stay connected to yourself rather than automatically pleasing, shutting down, or overriding what you know. You get to practice discernment and self trust.

Ever notice how one part of you knows exactly what she wants, while another immediately talks her out of it? Parts work helps us understand these inner conflicts without treating any part of you as the enemy. We'll get curious about the parts that protect, perform, please, or hold you back—and what they're afraid might happen if they stopped. The goal isn't to silence them, but to secure a sense of self-compassion, helping you lead your life from a more grounded, confident and authentic Self.

Sometimes the past keeps shaping your present, even when you understand exactly what happened and why. EMDR helps your brain process distressing experiences that continue to influence your emotions, beliefs, and reactions. Rather than simply retelling your story, we work with the memories, core beliefs and associations that keep old patterns activated, helping you respond to your life with greater freedom, flexibility, and choice.

You've spent years becoming who everyone needed you to be: the professional, the mother, the partner, the dependable one. But somewhere beneath those roles is a woman asking, “When is it my turn?” Perhaps midlife has made that question impossible to ignore. This work isn't about becoming better at juggling everything. It's about reconnecting with your own desires, intuition, boundaries, and identity—and discovering what happens when you stop making yourself the last priority.

You're the woman who anticipates everything. You think ahead, manage the details, read the room, and rarely let anything fall through the cracks. People call you capable. Inside, your mind and nervous system rarely get a break. What if your anxiety isn't simply something to manage, but a signal worth understanding? We'll explore what keeps you on alert and help you develop the capacity to feel grounded without needing to control everything around you.

Grief isn't always about someone dying. Sometimes it's mourning the relationship you hoped would be different, the years spent putting yourself last, or the woman you might have become if you'd felt free to choose yourself sooner. Some losses have no funeral, no acknowledgment, and no clear ending. We'll make room for what hurts, what was lost, and what may still be possible—without rushing you toward acceptance or asking you to find a silver lining.

You can understand a pattern intellectually and still feel your body react before you have a chance to choose differently. Somatic therapy helps us slow down and listen to what your nervous system is communicating. We'll explore the sensations, emotions, and protective responses that arise beneath your thoughts, building the capacity to stay connected to yourself rather than automatically pleasing, shutting down, or overriding what you know. You get to practice discernment and self trust.

Ever notice how one part of you knows exactly what she wants, while another immediately talks her out of it? Parts work helps us understand these inner conflicts without treating any part of you as the enemy. We'll get curious about the parts that protect, perform, please, or hold you back—and what they're afraid might happen if they stopped. The goal isn't to silence them, but to help you lead your life from a more confident, dignified, grounded, compassionate, authentic Self.

Sometimes the past keeps shaping your present, even when you understand exactly what happened and why. EMDR helps your brain process distressing experiences that continue to influence your emotions, beliefs, and reactions. Rather than simply retelling your story, we work with the memories, core beliefs and associations that keep old patterns activated, helping you respond to your life with greater freedom, flexibility, and choice.