Sara Rice

What on earth do Psychotherapy and Counseling have to do with pain management, and what do you even mean? There is evidence to support that stress has a significant impact on our body. I have first-hand experience in how trauma and pain are closely related and how therapy can help redirect your life and aid in decreasing the stress one puts on their body. I am an avid over-doer, which means that I would work my body to extreme fatigue and fight to get back to being able to move.

It is no surprise that the military community past and present has its own unique set of challenges. Only a small fraction of the population has ever entered into this fold. As a former Army wife myself and a forever member of the military community, I understand these unique challenges in thriving and surviving military life as well as the transition process from military life to civilian life. Many of our military members are struggling not only with PTSD but other unseen wounds.

Why the reason for a specialty in women's issues. While working at Community Recovery International as well as Alpha Grand Rapids, I have noticed a pattern of behavior in working with women. We often attempt to take on the world and when we cannot hold the world up, we take it as a self-perceived failure. I work with women who live their lives in a lower socioeconomic background, struggle with self-esteem, motherhood, domestic violence as well as lower confidence and self-worth.

My approach is intentionally integrative, drawing from trauma-focused, somatic, and attachment-based frameworks to meet each client exactly where they are. No two people heal in the same way, and I believe effective therapy requires flexibility, curiosity, and a willingness to follow the client's lead. Brainspotting serves as a powerful anchor within this eclectic framework, complementing modalities such as parts work and nervous system regulation to offer a truly individualized path

I specialize in working with individuals who have experienced complex, developmental, and acute trauma. Brainspotting offers a powerful, body-based pathway to healing that goes beyond what talk therapy alone can reach — and I am passionate about guiding clients through that process. As a Phase 1 Brainspotting-trained therapist, I use this modality to help clients access and release trauma held deep in the nervous system, at whatever pace feels safe for them.

Trauma is not just what happened, it is what happened inside us as a result, and healing requires reaching those deeper layers. I specialize in trauma therapy with a particular focus on complex and developmental trauma, working with clients who have often spent years feeling unseen or misunderstood by systems that were not equipped to meet their needs.

I specialize in working with individuals who have experienced complex, developmental, and acute trauma. Brainspotting offers a powerful, body-based pathway to healing that goes beyond what talk therapy alone can reach — and I am passionate about guiding clients through that process. As a Phase 1 Brainspotting-trained therapist, I use this modality to help clients access and release trauma held deep in the nervous system, at whatever pace feels safe for them.