Sarah Baida, LCSW
Clinical Supervisor
Sarah is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and earned her Master’s Degree of Social Service at Bryn Mawr College in 2013. Over the last decade, she has worked in both community mental health and private practice settings, offering extensive experience working with diverse adult populations.
Offering a safe and affirming space for trans, nonbinary and queer clients, Sarah specializes working with the LGBTQIA+ community to explore identity development and how queerness informs one’s experience in the world. Sarah also specializes in working with family members within an addicted family unit, supporting family members with understanding how they have learned to function around their family member in active addiction and what their own recovery process looks like independent from that of their addicted loved one.
Sarah’s work is strongly based in radical acceptance of the present state as it is, in order to achieve greater awareness, peace and joy. She works to support clients with learning how to live with grief around things we cannot change though building skills for shifting between what is heavy and devastating in our lives, while still holding space for what is beautiful in the world.
Change and growth is slow, thoughtful and requires hard work. Sarah encourages curiosity and introspection, supports increasing emotional awareness and explores thought patterns and behaviors in order to support a client to better understand the role they play within the patterns in their life.
Areas of expertise include:
Addiction/Substance Abuse
Anxiety
Codependency/Relationship Issues
Concerns around Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation
Depression
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
LGBTQ Related Issues
Life Transitions or Changes
Partner or Child of Substance User
Trauma
Women’s Issues
Clinical Supervision