Sarita Barnes (she/they)

ACSW
Accepting Clients

Welcome! I am a queer trauma therapist, somatic coach, and disability advocate here to help you connect deeply within yourself.

Associate Clinical Social Worker in California
Supervised by Lauren Ludlow

Services
  • Individual
  • Couples
  • Family
  • Group

About My Clients

For those finding themselves disconnected from their lives and relationships, unclear of what to do, wanting more from themselves, and lost on how to get there, I’m here to journey with you. In therapy we walk together in rediscovering your voice, deepen your understanding of your responses to life, identify your needs, and aligning your life with what you value.

My Background and Approach

My approach in providing trauma informed and harm-reductive care is to synthesize somatic awareness, internal family systems (parts integration), and narrative therapy to process unresolved trauma in the body and expand your emotional and mental capacity to engage more in your life. In therapy I welcome you to bring your whole self as I will always do the same. In that we will co-create safe space for you to grow and learn more about you. If interested to see how we can work together, I invite you to contact me for a free 15-minute consultation.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

My role as a therapist is to guide individuals to a place of voice and choice. Trauma often strips folks of both and therapy is a space to both restore and cultivate one's voice and explore what life looks like when we have choice again. As a practicing buddhist who embodies in my work a decolonial framework to therapy, I individualize the care I provide to what you need and how you seek to be in deeper relationship with self. I value immensely working with clients who often find it hard to connect with therapist, find themselves navigating oppressive medical systems they no longer know how to ask for help in, and even have given up on therapy in the past, but know they need care. I hope I can with my background, experience, expertise help to provide restoration in receiving and being provided attuned care that is in alignment with you.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Internal Family Systems Somatic Therapy: Body-Based Healing for Emotional Trauma
Other Techniques
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Couples Counseling
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Somatic Therapy: Body-Based Healing for Emotional Trauma
  • Internal Family Systems
  • Trauma Therapy
  • Sex Therapy

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Grief or Loss Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Agnosticism
  • Buddhism
  • Christianity

At A Glance

  • Experience: 3 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $135 - 150/session

Reach out to Sarita