Sarah Connor (She/her)

I specialize in treating anxiety and a number of anxiety-related disorders. Using a variety of approaches, I help people better understand how their minds work and utilize techniques to develop greater self awareness, self acceptance, tolerance of unbearable emotions, and greater quality of life.

I have worked for years supporting people who have experienced the loss of a loved one, providing supportive listening as well as a space to process and heal. Grief is an inevitable, natural, and often confusing or unbearable part of life. You don't have to experience this alone, and while healing takes time, we can work together toward reestablishing a connected and meaningful life.

I'm a member of the LGBT community, and I've also been active in supporting LGBT clients, each with a wide variety of identities, backgrounds, values, and life experiences. One of my greatest value is putting myself aside to see the person in front of me, allowing them to be the authority on their own identity, experience, and goals for treatment. Working within my client's paradigm, while also being knowledgeable of the systemic hurdles that exist, I support individuals toward their goals.

This is a bottom up approach that allows one to learn from the wisdom of their body, and what it is communicating about one's experience and needs. This approach can also utilize physical techniques to transform both cognitive and emotional responses that are otherwise challenging to understand or influence, giving the individual more freedom in how they can move within their own life.

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) therapy is a therapeutic modality that was developed to help people confront their anxieties, fears, obsessions, and phobias. When people are fearful of a thing or idea, they can completely change their lives to make avoiding this fear possible, often making the fear stronger and life unbearable. ERP focuses on gradual and controlled exposure ultimately aimed at taking the power away from anxiety and allowing people to re-engage with their own lives again.

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is an action-oriented approach to psychotherapy that focused on dropping our struggle with challenging emotions and, instead, accepting hard feelings and not allowing them to get us stuck in places where we don't want to stay. ACT uses tools to help clients unhook from things that are holding them back, make touch with the here and now, and move forward with what really matters in life.