Sarah Bickle (She/Her)

Approach Description: I use a trauma-informed and integrative approach, drawing from a range of evidence-based and holistic techniques to create a therapy experience tailored to you. I have listed some of the modalities that I use most below, however, my experience extends beyond these and I remain open to expanding my knowledge base. If there’s a technique you’d like to explore, let me know—we’ll work together to create a personalized path forward. Here’s a closer look at some of the methods we might explore together: EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing): Known as the "gold standard" of trauma therapy, EMDR is grounded in neuroscience. It taps into the brain’s natural healing abilities to release emotional blocks, create new neural pathways, and promote emotional regulation. Psychodynamic Therapy: Examines unconscious and maladaptive coping patterns that have gone awry, uncovering distortions and defense mechanisms. By fostering self-awareness, this approach enables transformative insights for meaningful change. Parts Work: Sees the self as a complex entity with many "parts," each with its own patterns of thoughts, feelings, and motivations. It helps build collaboration within your "inner team" to promote balance and well-being. Meditation/Visualization: Explore your mind with enhanced vividness and intentionality. This practice prompts your mind to open new pathways for emotional release and change, guiding you to uncover insights, deepen self-awareness, and cultivate inner peace. By using focused imagery and mindfulness, it helps you connect with your emotional landscape in a more profound way, supporting healing and transformation. It may also be used in more simple forms as a tool for regulation and relaxation. Attachment-Based Therapy: Explores the ways that formative relationships have shaped current patterns. By understanding and challenging these dynamics, we can work to create secure, healthy connections that foster trust and emotional stability. Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): EFT uses tapping on specific points on the body to help you focus deeply on emotional blockages, release them, and shift your relationship with emotional sensations. This technique allows you to detach from the stories you associate with these emotions, enabling them to move through you freely. EFT also explores emotional dynamics in relationships, helping you build more regulated, resilient connections and fostering stronger, healthier bonds. Somatic Therapy: Looks at the mind-body connection to uncover how unresolved emotions are held physically. Through mindful body awareness and movement, somatic therapy supports the release of stored trauma and helps cultivate emotional resilience. Schema Therapy: Focuses on identifying long-standing patterns or "schemas" formed in early life that affect how you view yourself and the world. It works to break these patterns and replace them with healthier, more adaptive ways of thinking and being. Gestalt Therapy: Encourages awareness of the present moment and the internal conflicts that may arise between thoughts, feelings, and actions. By using techniques like role-playing and empty chair work, Gestalt therapy helps you integrate these elements to achieve a more authentic and balanced self. Transpersonal Therapy: Explores the spiritual and transcendent dimensions of the self, addressing the deeper aspects of human experience. It focuses on self-actualization, personal growth, and finding meaning beyond the material world, helping you connect with your higher sense of purpose. Positive Psychology: Emphasizes strengths, positive emotions, and personal growth, helping you focus on what’s working well in your life and how you can build on that. This approach fosters greater happiness, life satisfaction, and resilience by encouraging an optimistic outlook. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Focuses on identifying and challenging unhelpful thought patterns and beliefs that shape your behavior and emotional responses. By exploring these patterns and repeatedly practicing new ways of thinking, CBT helps rewire your brain's neural connections, replacing habitual responses with healthier, more realistic ones. This process reduces distress and enhances your ability to cope effectively with life's challenges Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Focuses on balancing acceptance and change, helping individuals with emotional regulation and interpersonal challenges through the development of tools. DBT combines mindfulness with skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and making thoughtful decisions in moments of distress. Vajrayana Tantric Meditation: This practice is unique in its integration of both "top-down" and "bottom-up" neural processing, allowing you to engage with your body's sexual energy in a profoundly transformative way. It helps you focus, move, and channel this energy throughout your body for healing. Especially beneficial for those not ready for physical touch or those whose mind blocks sexual enjoyment, tantric meditation serves as a powerful tool for reclaiming and enhancing your sexual well-being. Incorporating mindful meditation, breathwork, vocalizations, kegels, and visualization, it fosters a deeper sense of peace, connection, and vitality. Vinyasa Yoga: Uses fluid, intentional movement synchronized with breath to release stress, increase body awareness, and improve emotional well-being. Vinyasa yoga helps foster a balanced mind-body connection that supports emotional healing and physical vitality.