Sarah has full membership with EMDR Association of Australia. She has 13 years of experience as a Social Worker, providing therapeutic counselling services and has extensive experience working with adults in the trauma space. Sarah is a trained EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) practitioner, and her other training undertaken includes Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy. Sarah is the Owner and Director of Woodville Mental Health Counselling Service. Counselling can take place in person, via phone or internet. She has a commitment to offer counselling that is compassionate, attuned, holistic and safe. She focuses on empowerment and cooperative self-determination. Her therapeutic approach is flexible and adapted to the individual. Sarah is passionate about working alongside people to develop their own strengths, skills and strategies so these challenges have much less impact on them and so they can focus on the things in life that are most meaningful to them. Areas of specialty: 1) Anxiety (and avoidance), worries and stress 2) Depression, low self-esteem and sadness 3) Emotional dysregulation, feelings of frustration 4) Trauma, difficult life events, and grief, loss and overwhelm 5) Supporting domestic violence victims 6) Support with family court stressors