Hi, I’m Sarah.

I love getting to do work that stretches my capacity for connection in this world. Sharing space with folks in moments of vulnerability and strength, and bearing witness to clients' guts and grace, is a special privilege that I cherish with gratitude and joy.

Since childhood, I dreamt of doing work in which I could engage my full self, rather than being expected to siphon off my intellect or my spirit or my body.

I’ve worked as a professional caregiver in various settings for a decade. Most of this time was in the hospice & healing home, Joseph’s House, a community that is beloved to me.

I am a graduate of the Metta Institute, an intensive, mindfulness-based program for end-of-life practitioners focused on developing capacities for offering wise and compassionate care.

When I experienced the power of touch in caregiving, I decided to pursue bodywork at Potomac Massage Training Institute, with a special focus on fostering accessible and affirming spaces for folks with all kind of bodies—especially those who experience marginalization. I’ve taught about serving diverse populations in massage, being with the dying, and touch in caregiving. In 2016, I started holding space together. Before I focused all my energies on this business, I did highly adaptive massage with clients with physical and intellectual disabilities in their homes.

My professional interests (which are also my personal interests) include: working at the intersection of healing and justice; understanding ways oppression and trauma get stored in the body; somatic psychotherapy—especially Hakomi and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy; intersectional Disability, Deaf & Racial Justice; deepening my capacity to foster radically affirming and nonviolent healing spaces; massage for mental health support; bioethics of caregiving; accessibility; home funeral rights, history and practices; self-compassion; and using my own somatic self-awareness and spiritual practices to deepen my skillfulness and devotion in showing care for this world.

When I’m not working for holding space together, you’ll find me loving on the animals in my life, spending time in queer community, watching campy supernatural teen dramas, and *attempting* all kinds of DIY home improvement projects. I am also working towards my M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with an emphasis in Somatic Counseling at Prescott College, and am continually fascinated by the ways in which our bodies hold strength, wisdom and guidance.

I cherish the opportunity to hold space together.