What We Offer
Individual Counseling
We work with adult clients (ages 18+) experiencing depression, anxiety disorders, trauma, life transitions, and many other concerns. We have extensive experience working with members of the LGBTQIA+ community. We are particularly passionate about working with trauma survivors. We use a variety of different treatment modalities, depending on your particular needs, including elements of person-centered therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, trauma-specific therapies such as EMDR, and others. We often use an attachment theory lens to work with relational concerns, focusing on how you attach to others and how you can heal attachment injuries to become more secure with others.
Relationship Counseling
As therapists, we are centered on relationships. What makes people connect with each other? What makes them disconnect? How can we form warm, loving, close relationships? How can we help our partners and friends feel safe, valued and free to be themselves?
We often hear from our clients that they feel alone, that they long for relationships in which they feel really known and accepted and wanted. We want to help people find those connections. Sarah offers individual and relationship counseling for both monogamous and non-monogamous folks, while Bee focuses on these issues in individual therapy.
Supervision
Sarah provides clinical supervision for Michigan Limited License Counselors (LLCs, also known as Limited License Professional Counselors or LLPCs). Your first counseling job can seem overwhelming. You’re seeing new clients, working with new issues, trying to write notes that will satisfy insurance companies or documentation requirements, coordinating with doctors or psychiatrists, dealing with insurance, navigating crisis situations. There are many new skills to learn, and having support makes all the difference.
Sarah has a doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision, and has facilitated skill development for many counselors-in-training. Click here to learn more about her approach to supervision!
Affirming Approaches
We think the frameworks that we are offered for life and relationships are often too narrow and constricting. We take an expansive view of human experience, encouraging you to grow as an individual and create relationships in a way that is intentional and that works well for you and the people you love.
In relationship-focused therapy, we recognize that not all relationships fit neatly into the heteronormative boxes of spouse/partner, friend, or acquaintance. We often work with clients who practice ethical non-monogamy and other forms of family creation that don’t conform to those expectations. At the same time, some relationships do fit in those boxes, and some people flourish within them. Human connections are complex, and we can be as creative as we want with them! Let’s find the relationship shapes that work for you!
We believe that racism, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism, classism, sizeism, ableism, and all other forms of social oppression destroy our well-being and our capacity to connect. Confronting these systems is absolutely necessary for our individual and collective well-being, so we try to integrate this context into everything we do together. We also believe in the power, beauty, resilience, and creativity of people to challenge and tear down these systems.
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