Trauma Support Providers

Professional Biography

Sarah is the CEO and founder of Mental Awakening as well as a highly experienced Psychotherapist with years of involvement within the sector. She is also an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and a member of the AASW.

Sarah has been working within the field of trauma recovery and mind-body disorders for a decade, specialising in chronic pain and Tension Myositis Syndrome – TMS (basing her approach on Dr. John Sarno and Dr. Howard Schubiner’s research on Mind Body Syndrome – MBS). Her clients are based all over Australia as she offers face-to-face and Telehealth Counselling sessions (over phone/video) at Mental Awakening. Her motto is simple: “Supporting clients in creating authentic power within themselves and in turn being able to make what was once difficult, easier”.

Sarah’s interest lies in helping her clients feel heard, understood and supported so they can start to connect with their true nature and learn to live their lives from a space of love as opposed to fear. She is a great believer that life is a mirror and that our outer world reflects our inner world and once we start to understand that, we have so much more power than we can imagine.

Sarah is passionate about helping clients achieve meaningful connections, assisting them to reconnect and work towards developing a closer, stronger and more secure relationship with themselves and their body. It is her aim to support clients with experiencing a new reference point for happiness and to overcome struggles, feel fulfilled and develop enhanced self-compassion, irrespective of adversity.

For Sarah, life is about growth and expansion. Her focus lies in remaining present with her clients while creating a fully open and authentic space where healing can take place. Her approach is to respond to the client’s unique situation, by developing individually tailored sessions that are inclusive of Humanistic Therapy, Meditation, Yoga, Mindfulness, Inner Child Work, Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Somatic Therapy, Shadow and Archetypal work, Art Therapy, Solution Focused Brief Therapy and The Polyvagal Theory. Sarah has great interest, personal experience and familiarity with TMS (Tension Myosistic Syndrome) and feels passionate about supporting her clients towards recovery. She is also acquainted with compassionate Inquiry, which is a psycho-therapeutic method developed by Dr. Gabor Maté that reveals what lies beneath the appearances that we present to the world.

Client Types

• Adult