A woman with wavy, shoulder-length hair wearing blue glasses, bold lightning bolt earrings, a septum piercing, and a light blue jumpsuit standing outdoors in front of green foliage.

I’m Sarah, and I am a community therapist offering relationally-focused mental health counseling in West Asheville or virtually in North Carolina.

Grief, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, burnout, and our full range of survival responses all make sense given what we are facing in this world. And, healing remains possible, and healing helps us show up and contribute in the ways we can to the world we long for.

My clients are often politicized helping professionals and caregivers, educators, healthcare workers and parents, queer and trans folks, formerly or currently homeless folks, people who use or have used drugs, and folks who’ve been incarcerated. We walk alongside one another to reclaim feeling, resist the pathologization of suffering from and survival of the dehumanizing systems surrounding us, and to show up in daily life and relationships guided by commitments to liberation for all.

Why Lichen?

Lichen looks like one organism, but is at least two, and often three or four. Lichens live on all kinds of things—bark, rocks, the ground—but only thrive where the air is fresh. Very slowly, using their bodies, lichens break down rocks into soil.

Lichen exemplifies some understandings on which I base my practice:

  • We are made of relationships

  • The external conditions of our lives shape us

  • We can shape them back

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