About Sarah
Therapy for the relationships that shape your life.
I believe our relationships—with ourselves and with the people we love—have a profound impact on how we experience our lives.
As a marriage and family therapist, I help individuals and couples understand the patterns shaping their relationships, develop greater self-awareness, and create healthier ways of communicating and connecting.
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.
Those experiences taught me that meaningful change is rarely as simple as leaving something behind. It often asks us to look more closely at ourselves, our patterns, and the stories we've carried with us.
My 2022 book, How to Change Your Life, grew out of this interest in personal transformation. That same curiosity about how people change—and how relationships evolve—continues to shape my work today.
A short introduction to my approach.
From Storytelling to Therapy
Before becoming a therapist, I spent a decade in content marketing and storytelling, including work with Columbia University's Department of Psychiatry and global brands such as Under Armour and Williams Sonoma.
That work deepened my interest in the stories we tell about ourselves and our relationships—and how those stories shape the way we connect, communicate, and make sense of our lives.
That curiosity eventually led me to pursue a second master's degree in marriage and family therapy and a career centered on relationships and human connection.
How I Work
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.
My style is warm, active, and collaborative. I'm also willing to be direct when it's helpful. I'll ask questions, offer observations, and draw attention to patterns that can be difficult to recognize when you're living inside them.
My clinical experience includes working with individuals, couples, and families who want to strengthen communication, understand recurring patterns, prepare for new chapters, or navigate conflict, addiction and recovery, separation, divorce, and major life transitions.
“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, Outpatient Group Therapy, and Family Support Related to Addiction & Recovery
Certified Holistic Health Coach, Institute of Integrative Nutrition
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.
