Hi, I'm Sara, a psycho-spiritual psychotherapist in California. I help individual adults who yearn to overcome chronic suffering and find a deeper sense of meaning in their lives. Perhaps you've been judged for your highly sensitive nature, a spiritual experience, your use of psychedelics or cannabis, being a millennial, or for how you show up in the world as "feminine" or "masculine."
Maybe your choices, beliefs, experiences or identity go against the norm, and you need to know your therapist will "get" you. On the outside, it looks like you have everything together; but on the inside, you feel broken. Perhaps you suffer from PTSD or complex trauma. Psychedelic or spiritual experiences have been part of your healing, but they've turned your world inside-out.
Maybe your choices, beliefs, experiences or identity go against the norm, and you need to know your therapist will "get" you. On the outside, it looks like you have everything together; but on the inside, you feel broken. Perhaps you suffer from PTSD or complex trauma. Psychedelic or spiritual experiences have been part of your healing, but they've turned your world inside-out.
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Hi, I'm Sara Ouimette (pronounced "we met"), a psychotherapist and ordained minister in California. I specialize in psychedelic integration therapy; cannabis use; spiritual counseling; highly sensitive people, empaths and introverts; trauma and PTSD; women's issues; men's issues; and millennials/IT Industry workers.
Psychedelics such as MDMA, LSD, ayahuasca/DMT, and psilocybin are being researched for their therapeutic potential by organizations like the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (M.A.P.S.) with promising results, but the research is still in progress. Most psychedelics are classified as schedule I substances and are therefore illegal.
Even though cannabis use is now legal in California, the stigma remains, which can make it frustratingly difficult to find healthcare providers who are well informed about its benefits and risks. As a licensed psychotherapist, I see individuals who use marijuana but worry about being judged or misunderstood by medical professionals.
Many people report having had spontaneous spiritual experiences at some point in their lives. Perhaps you had certain spiritual gifts or experiences as a child. Later in life, maybe meditation, kundalini yoga, a major life event, a sexual experience, or cannabis or psychedelic use catalyzed a profound spiritual opening.
Highly sensitive people make up about 20% of the population. If you're an HSP, that means you're likely surrounded by people who don't understand your needs. You may be accustomed to pushing yourself through states of overwhelm, over-stimulation, anxiety and exhaustion. If you were a highly sensitive child and never had help with embracing and respecting the trait you were born with, you might be suffering in all kinds of ways.
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Ken B.
Aug 28, 2019
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I have had the professional honor of knowing Sara for the past five years. Sara is one of the most knowledgeable, intuitive and compassionate psychotherapists I have ever worked with in my twenty years of Bay Area service. In addition to having the utmost faith in her as a therapist, I have also greatly benefited from her wisdom and insights as a trustworthy consultant. I have been particularly impressed with her deep understanding of how trauma and attachment intersect as well as her ability to help others enhance their own personal post traumatic resilience. Her progressive evidenced based
H. S.
Jul 25, 2018
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Melanie H.
Jun 28, 2018
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