About Sarah
Therapy for the relationships that shape your life.
Our closest relationships can be a source of meaning and connection, but they can also be where some of our most persistent patterns emerge.
As a marriage and family therapist, I help individuals and couples understand those patterns, communicate more effectively, and create healthier ways of relating to themselves and one another.
My Experience With Change
My path to becoming a therapist is rooted not only in professional training, but also in my own experience of change and starting over.
At 30, I found myself rebuilding my life after the end of a decade-long marriage. In the years that followed, I moved across the country, remarried, and eventually began a second career as a marriage and family therapist.
That experience taught me that meaningful change is rarely as simple as leaving something behind. It often asks us to understand ourselves more honestly, recognize the patterns we carry forward, and make intentional choices about what comes next. It is also one reason I feel especially drawn to helping people navigate relationship crossroads, separation, remarriage, and new chapters.
A Longstanding Interest in Relationships
My interest in relationships began years before I became a therapist. In 2016, I created and hosted The Interrelate Project, a podcast featuring thoughtful conversations about relationships, identity, personal growth, and the experiences that shape how we connect. I later brought that same focus to relationship coaching, helping people reflect more intentionally on their patterns, choices, and relationships.
My 2022 book, How to Change Your Life, grew out of this continuing interest in personal transformation. Alongside that work, I spent many years in content marketing and storytelling, including with Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry and global brands such as Under Armour and Williams Sonoma. Across these different roles, I kept returning to the same questions:
How do our earlier experiences shape the relationships we choose?
Why do certain patterns repeat?
And what helps people create meaningful, lasting change?
Wanting to explore those questions through a deeper, clinically grounded lens eventually led me to pursue a second master’s degree in marriage and family therapy.
How I Work
A Systemic Perspective
My training as a marriage and family therapist means I naturally look at problems in context—not only at what's happening within you, but at the relationships, experiences, and larger systems that have shaped you.
I’ll ask thoughtful questions, share observations, and help you notice patterns that can be difficult to see from the inside. When it’s helpful, I’ll offer direct feedback with care and respect. We’ll use what we learn to identify changes that feel meaningful and possible for you.
Warm, Active & Collaborative
Experience With Relationships & Change
My clinical experience includes working with individuals, couples, and families navigating recurring conflict, communication difficulties, relationship transitions, addiction and recovery, separation, divorce, and other significant periods of change.
My couples work is informed by training in the Gottman Method and Relational Life Therapy, with a focus on helping partners recognize recurring patterns, take responsibility for their part in difficult dynamics, and build more effective ways of relating.
Education, Training & Credentials
MFT-LP, New York
Associate Marriage and Family Therapist, New Jersey and Connecticut
MA, Marriage & Family Therapy, Syracuse University
Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Level 1
Level 1 Training in Relational Life Therapy (RLT)
MA, English & Gender Studies, University of Maine
Clinical Experience: Mountainside Treatment Center—Individual, Couples, Group, and Family Work Related to Addiction and Recovery
Certified Holistic Health Coach, Institute of Integrative Nutrition
Writing & Resources
My interest in relationships, personal growth, and meaningful change has also shaped my work as a writer.
How to Change Your Life
In my book, How to Change Your Life, I explore how small, intentional shifts can help us understand ourselves more clearly, move through periods of change, and create lives that feel more aligned with who we are.
Notes on Relationships & Change
In my newsletter, I share occasional reflections on relationships, recurring patterns, emotional well-being, and navigating life’s transitions—along with new articles and practical ideas you can use in your own life.
You don’t have to know exactly what you need before reaching out.
Sometimes the first step is simply having a conversation about what's happening and whether therapy might be helpful.
