Sarah Bond (she/her)

Psychoanalytic 

I offer therapy informed by psychoanalytic schools of thought, with a focus on the ways unconscious motives outside of our awareness shape our sense of self, relationships, and worldview. I am interested in learning more about your past, so we can track the impact on your current sense of self. This kind of therapy asks us to expand our ability to tolerate uncertainty, and to be generous and hospitable toward all parts of self, even those we would rather avoid.

Psychodynamic 

My orientation is relational and intersubjective, meaning that I understand the therapeutic relationship itself as central to the work and not merely its container. We don’t see others as they are, so much as we create them in the image of what we’ve come to expect from others. This is true in life, and also in therapy. What unfolds between two people in a room, the feelings that get stirred, the dynamics that get enacted, all of these are therapy’s most vital material, not distractions.

Depth Therapy

I draw from Jungian and transpersonal psychotherapies, understanding that spiritual, archetypal, and physical worlds all intersect and influence our personal health. In this way of working, I seek to help you find wholeness through the integration of shadow, unconscious, and the wisdom of the archetypal world. We will work with your dreams, create art, and dialogue with different archetypal figures emerging from your psyche.

Somatic Therapy (Body Centered)

I draw from somatic modalities to create trauma-informed interventions aimed to ground safety within your body and nervous system. I view healing as a multi-dimensional experience involving mind, soul, and body. By attuning to body sensation, we can further understand your phenomenological experience. From there, emotions come to life and offer us a rich source of wisdom to be worked with therapeutically.

Relationship / Marriage Issues

In psychodynamic therapy, we build insight into your relationship patterns through exploring the therapy relationship itself. How you experience me, how we experience one another, what patterns get enacted between us, all have their place within our work together. Noticing these patterns and the way they play out in the room is often the most direct path toward what it is about you and your psychology we are trying to understand.

Self-Esteem

We are strangers to ourselves, shaped by motives, drives, hopes and dreads outside of conscious awareness. Much of how we come to understand our sense of self, our relationship patterns, and our worldviews originates in places we don’t have direct access to. Our early life experiences live on not as memories so much as ways of being. I approach self-esteem through an exploratory lens, seeking to better understand your past experiences and their impact on your mind, your psychology.

Depression

I work well with depression, grief, existential questions, and the darkness that exists within myself, my clients, and the world around us. I seek to help my clients build relationship to their darkness. As John O'Donohue writes, "Darkness is one of our closest companions." I am less interested in finding solutions than I am in growing an ability to be present with uncertainty and unknowing.

Spirituality

My doctoral training program specialized in the integration of spirituality and psychology. I have experience and training in working with a variety of religious backgrounds, spiritual, trauma, and questions about deconstruction or spiritual identity. I draw from evidence based practice while also allowing for the mystery of the soul to exist within the therapeutic encounter.