Sarah Shah (she/her)

I am a Certified Positive Discipline Parent Educator through the Positive Discipline Association. In my parent and coparent coaching sessions I work collaboratively with caregivers to learn more about their current concerns. I then pull from Positive Discipline tools and use a directive-educator approach to teach caregivers tools that may be applicable to their current concerns. I support caregivers as they incorporate these tools into their parenting or coparenting routine.

Relationships are not easy - they also don't have to be so difficult! I help partners navigate difficult conversations - including identifying and communicating their needs and wants from the relationship, rebuild trust, and/or heal from codependency. I am passionate about helping partners set healthy boundaries in their romantic relationships and beyond!

So many things are wrapped up in the view we have of ourselves - whose voice are you letting control that view? Your dad's? Society's? Maybe your grandmother's? You may not know at this point - and that is okay! Just know this - that self-critical or self-doubting voice is not yours - it is a voice that you have been listening to for so long that it appears to be yours. I help adults identify their self-critical voices and learn a new language - positive self-talk.

To me, being a culturally sensitive therapist means viewing my client as an intersection of all of their unique identities and accepting and honoring those identities. I identify as a first-generation Pakistani-American Woman of Color and I recognize that even client's who may identify the same or similarly still have their own unique worldview. My job is to accept my clients as they are and do my own work outside the therapy room too to learn and honor their unique cultures.

To me, being a culturally sensitive therapist means viewing my client as an intersection of all of their unique identities and accepting and honoring those identities. I identify as a first-generation Pakistani-American Woman of Color and I recognize that even client's who may identify the same or similarly still have their own unique worldview. My job is to accept my clients as they are and do my own work outside the therapy room too to learn and honor their unique cultures.

To me, being a culturally sensitive therapist means viewing my client as an intersection of all of their unique identities and accepting and honoring those identities. I identify as a first-generation Pakistani-American Woman of Color and I recognize that even client's who may identify the same or similarly still have their own unique worldview and experiences. My job is to accept my clients as they are and do my own work outside the therapy room too to learn and honor their unique cultures.

To me, being a trauma-informed therapist means recognizing that my client's behaviors, thoughts, and feelings do not define them and may be responses to trauma they have experienced. I believe that unhealthy habits are ways of coping, survival instincts that worked for a long time and may not work anymore. As a trauma-informed therapist I utilize a collaborative approach and connection of mind and body through mindfulness practices aimed at holistic healing.

Anxiety is a common emotion, and like all of our emotions, it tells us something about our need. I help clients identify where their anxiety stems from, where they learned it, and how to cope with it.