VIRTUAL THERAPY FOR ADULTS AND PARENTS
THROUGHOUT MICHIGAN and florida
A better relationship with the life you're living.
For adults and parents ready to set down the shame, scripts, and expectations you never chose, and meet what's in front of you from steadier ground.
Honest, individualized therapy for what’s real right now
WHAT BRINGS PEOPLE HERE
So much of life
is handed to you
Life is messy enough on its own, and it gets harder when you are working your way through invisible systems, inherited scripts, and other people's triggers, all while trying to show up for the people you love and still have something left for yourself.
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You’ve read the books, changed the routine, moved bedtime earlier, and held it together at work and at three in the morning, lying awake wondering if you’re getting it all wrong. Some of it helped a little, yet patterns and behaviors keep coming back.
Most of what you’re dealing with was built long before you had any say in it: family patterns, cultural expectations, the rules nobody voted on. Together, we look underneath the struggle to name what’s been quietly running the show.
Once you can see it clearly, you get to decide what stays.
What steadier can look like
Imagine a Tuesday evening that ends with everyone still in the same room, a hard conversation with your kid where you stay in your own body the whole way through, a week where you don’t have to ration parts of yourself to get through, or a moment where you catch a part of you reacting and lead from a calmer place.
MOST PEOPLE ARRIVE HERE IN ONE OF THREE PLACES
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It was too much, too soon. Or not enough, for too long. So a part of you learned to carry it all, and it’s left you so disconnected from your own needs that you’re not sure what they are anymore.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) treats the parts of you that learned to manage as intelligent rather than broken, and EMDR helps your body process what was too much to take in at the time.
Together, they help you understand the patterns still quietly steering your life, process what happened, and trust your own experience again.
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You built your family through adoption, surrogacy, or donor conception, and the parenting advice out there assumes a family that isn’t yours. There may be grief you feel disqualified from naming because you chose this path, and love running underneath all of it at the same time.
Adoption-competent, identity-affirming parent therapy keeps your child’s experience at the center, makes room for the hope that brought you here, and helps you parent with confidence.
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Your child is working out who they are, whether that’s gender, sexuality, race, culture, faith, disability, or a brain that runs differently than school expects. They might be one of the kids who feel it all. Or you’re living with ARFID or OCD at home, and every meal or ritual has become what the day is organized around.
Help that actually reaches your child starts with you. CBT-AR for ARFID and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD give you a clear plan to follow. Care can be coordinated directly with the other professionals in your family’s orbit, like the school, the pediatrician, or the occupational therapist, because care that happens in silos can cost your family months.
Hi, I’m Sara
I’m a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) and consultant committed to culturally responsive care. I came to this work through group facilitation before I ever sat in the therapist’s chair. That path shaped everything about how I practice. I believe people make the most sense when we look at the whole picture. So I pay attention to the systems and histories that shape you and your family, because the hardest things we carry rarely start with us.
I’m also an adoptive parent, and I’ve sat on the other side of many of the conversations I hold now. It shapes how I work with families whose paths the books don’t cover, and it’s why there’s room here for the full range of what you feel, including the messy parts and the ones that are hard to say out loud.
Whether you’re an adult navigating life or a parent showing up the best you can for your kid(s), there’s room here for the messy parts and the ones that are hard to say out loud.
MEET YOUR
THERAPIST
MEET YOUR THERAPIST
Therapy with me is finding your way back to yourself.
VIRTUAL THERAPY IN MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA
Specialized care for adults, parents, and the families they’re building
✦ Internal Family Systems
✦ EMDR
✦ CBT-AR for ARFID
✦ Exposure & Response Prevention for OCD
✦ Adoption-Competent Parent Therapy
✦ Intensives
Internal Family Systems ✦ EMDR ✦ CBT-AR for ARFID ✦ Exposure & Response Prevention for OCD ✦ Adoption-Competent Parent Therapy ✦ Intensives
Not everyone needs the same shape of therapy, and the shape can change as you do. Sessions run the length the work requires, and intensives exist for the weeks that can’t wait.
TRAUMA THERAPY AND PARENT SUPPORT
The right connection in the right environment can change what’s possible.
I look at the system around you and within you, before anything else. For you, that means your exhaustion and reactivity are understood as intelligent responses to what you were handed. And if you're a parent, it means your child's behavior is understood as a signal about what they're navigating, one that often shifts as you do.
The mess doesn’t disappear, but it stops deciding for you. Your child gets to live in their childhood, and you get to lead as the capable parent you are.
The mess doesn’t disappear, but it stops deciding for you.
You don’t need to have it all figured out
Arriving unsure, mid-mess, and without words for what you’re walking through is exactly where most people begin.