Sara Rosenau

Sara Rosenau (she/they)

Clinical Social Work Associate

PhD, CSWA

My intention is to support your growth by offering a non-judgemental environment for you to be exactly where you are right now.

Client Status

not accepting clients

Contact

5036640733

8532 N. Ivanhoe

Ste 203

Portland , 97203

At a Glance

Me

Rate: $125-$200

Practicing Since: 2012

Services

  • Individual

Insurances Accepted

  • Aetna
  • PacificSource
  • Providence Health Plan
  • Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield

My Ideal Client

My ideal client is anyone who is willing to show up for the journey. I'm here to be on the journey with you. I can help with accessing and naming feelings, working with limiting beliefs, setting boundaries and communicating needs, learning self-love and self-support, developing secure attachments in relationships, exploring more freeing sexual expression and practice, aligning more deeply with values, processing grief and loss, healing from religious trauma, finding new spiritual meaning.

My Approach to Helping

As a therapist, I begin with the understanding that you are the expert of your own life and you have inner knowledge and capacity for healing. My intention is to support your growth by offering a non-judgemental and supportive environment for you to be exactly where you are right now. I will hold space for you to be with your pain, tell the truth about what’s wrong, explore limiting beliefs, find new insight, and make courageous shifts towards healing and deepening purpose. Through therapy, I hope you can begin to express your “full and free human-beingness.” My approach is relational and centered in your strengths and resilience. I tailor my approach to each individual. I specifically work with the mind-body connection and am trained to introduce mindfulness into sessions in a way that gently guides you to pay attention to the body’s signals to deepen your understanding of your struggles. Just having a willingness to be curious in self-exploration is a good place to begin.

My Values as a Therapist

I am a member of the LGBTIQ community. I am kink/poly aware and sex positive. I actively examine my privilege and seek to align my practice to support the thriving of all individuals, especially those who are marginalized by the dominant culture in areas of race, gender expression, and disability. I have deep values in social justice and volunteered my skills for Black Lives Matter and other social movements for liberation.

Techniques I Use

Specialties

  • Somatic Therapy (Body Centered) External link

    I am trained in Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy (Level One). Hakomi understands that change comes not from our effort, but from our awareness. Hakomi uses mindfulness—a state of relaxed, nonjudgmental awareness–to study, activate, and directly experience the root causes underlying our habitual feelings, thoughts and behavior.

Issues I Treat

Specialties

  • ADHD External link

    Particularly working with those diagnosed as adults. Support self-understanding, undoing shame, and behavioral shifts

  • Anxiety External link

    Working with mindfulness, increasing awareness of activation, and using the body as teacher and tool for self-regulation and soothing

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