Sarah Sidoti is pursuing her Master of Social Service and is in her final year of social work graduate school at Bryn Mawr College. Most recently in her decade-and-a-half career, she has worked in community mental health, college academic advising, and arts and well-being research.

Sarah’s approach to therapy is one that is rooted in self-compassion and radical acceptance. She is person-centered, trauma-informed, and cultivates a curious, non-judgemental, safe-as-possible, caring space for clients to share their stories. Sarah is drawn toward a multi-dimensional view of the self and uses parts work to help clients gain insight into issues of stuckness, ambivalence, and conflict. As a relationally-oriented therapist, she believes that generative insights can emerge from the client-therapist dynamic itself.

While by no means an exhaustive list, you might connect well with Sarah if:

• You are curious about your identity and want a space to explore/to practice becoming who you already are

• You’re new to therapy, have heard the cultural buzz of people “doing the work” and “healing,” and are wondering what that looks like in practice

• You are an emerging adult/in quarterlife (age 18 to 40ish) and are envisioning and navigating the next stages of your life, be it your work/career, school/a training program or apprenticeship, living on your own, building/sustaining deep relationships, starting a family, and/or cultivating community

• You are in mid/late life and wondering about meaning, purpose, and personal growth in a society that frames adulthood as a destination (and not as a continued stage of development)

• You identify as queer, non-binary, and/or trans and seek an affirming space

• You identify as fat and/or experience issues with body image, and want a therapist who will take a body-neutral, fat-liberation, health at every size approach

• You seek liberation from internalized oppression (e.g. racism/white supremacy culture, patriarchy, fatphobia, ableism, classism, homophobia/transphobia/compulsory cishet normativity)

• You are laboring (as a student or employee) under a higher education institution

• You are an artist, maker, or creative

• You are someone who uses ambition, drive, productivity, and/or perfectionism as a coping mechanism

• You have or are looking to develop an expansive, non-moralized conceptualization of relationships and sex

Areas of interest include: 

• Anxiety

• Artists, makers, and creatives

• Concerns around gender identity or sexual orientation

• Depression

• Emerging adulthood/quarterlife

• Fat identities, body image, and weight stigma

• Grief and loss

• Life transitions or changes

• LQBTQ-related issues

• Stress management

• Women’s issues