Hi, I'm Sarah!

Maybe you found the messages. Maybe it was a confession, or a slow accumulation of things that didn't add up until one day they did. Now you can't stop replaying it. You're checking, questioning, lying awake doing forensics on your own life. People keep asking if you're going to stay or go, as if that's the real question, when the real question is: how do I trust my own judgment again?

Or maybe your betrayal happened much earlier, and it came from the person who was supposed to love you first. You grew up managing your mother's moods, earning love that should have been free, becoming whoever you needed to be to keep the peace. Now you're an adult who struggles to trust, over-gives in every relationship, and hears her voice in your head more than your own.

Both of these are betrayal. Both live in the body. And both are the work I do.

I didn't grow up with a safety net. I built everything I have from scratch, and I know exactly what it costs. I know what it's like when the people who were supposed to hold you couldn't, and what it takes to build trust, in others and in yourself, as an adult. I lived the gap between how I looked on the outside and how I actually felt for a long time before I understood what it was.

That experience is why I do this work. And it's why I'm good at it.

For individuals and couples after betrayal: Discovery of an affair or a serious breach of trust is a trauma. The intrusive images, the hypervigilance, the obsessive checking, the feeling that reality itself lied to you. Whether you come alone or with your partner, we work on stabilizing your nervous system first, then making sense of what happened, and then, whether you stay together or not, rebuilding your ability to trust yourself. Couples work here isn't about rushing to forgiveness. It's about honesty, accountability, and finding out what's actually possible between you.

For young adults healing the mother wound: We look at the patterns you learned before you could choose them. The perfectionism, the people-pleasing, the guilt that flares every time you set a boundary. This isn't about blaming your mother. It's about finally separating her voice from yours, grieving what you didn't get, and learning to give it to yourself.

How I work

I work at the intersection of nervous system regulation, attachment theory, somatic awareness, and deeper insight-oriented therapy. I'm trained in CBT, IFS, psychodynamic therapy, and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), and I draw from polyvagal theory and somatic work, all within The COVE Method, Therapy Cove's signature trauma framework. Betrayal and attachment wounds don't just live in your thoughts. They live in your body, often long before your mind catches up, and we'll work with all of it.

My style is warm, direct, and deeply relational. I believe healing happens when there is enough safety to finally tell the truth about what you're carrying, what you've been avoiding, and what you actually need. You don't have to perform being okay here. You just have to show up.

Outside the therapy room, you'll find me on my bike, on a paddleboard, or somewhere in the world I haven't been yet, 38 countries down, with plenty more ahead. Those experiences have given me a deep respect for resilience across cultures and a genuine curiosity about what it means to build a life that actually feels like yours.

If you're ready to stop replaying it and start rebuilding, I'd love to work with you. Let's sit with it and work through it!