Holistic Jungian therapist specializing in trauma and relationships
Like many therapists, I came to this calling after many years of doing other things. Professionally, this meant translation (Russian to English), which taught me how to pop in and out of vastly different ways of looking at the world. There was also raising children, tending to a marriage and friendships, and falling in love with an artistic hobby, I have been a therapist for 20 years now. For most of those years, I worked at a community mental health clinic, where I worked with people from a huge variety of backgrounds and ways of experiencing the world. Many were very poor. Many were very sick, sometimes psychotic. I learned how to see reality through many different lenses and to join forces with my clients to make life better. After these decades, I think I have developed a fairly clear approach to helping others, which I will try to explain below.
Life can be very confusing. When a person walks into a therapy room for the first time, they are often emotionally bruised and looking for some clarity about their world and their own responses to events and circumstances. It is a privilege for me as a therapist to help the people I work with to make sense of it all. I help my clients learn to listen to themselves with respect, compassion, and curiosity. People can develop this courageous curiosity when they learn to have faith that whatever they find out about themselves makes sense and is coming from a decent place. It is often difficult to cultivate the habit of validating one’s own thoughts and feelings (especially if one has long experience of doing the opposite), but it is extremely rewarding as the changes begin to be noticeable.
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Sarah Hammack entered the field of therapy after working in other professions, including as a Russian-to-English translator. That translation work taught her how to move between very different perspectives, a skill she also developed while raising children, nurturing a marriage and friendships, and pursuing an artistic hobby.
She has three years of experience as a therapist and has spent most of that time at a community mental health clinic serving people with a wide range of backgrounds and life circumstances. Many of the individuals she worked with faced deep financial hardship and serious mental health challenges, including episodes of psychosis, and that experience helped her learn to see reality through many lenses and to collaborate with clients to improve their lives.
Her style emphasizes helping people make sense of confusing or painful situations and learning to listen to themselves with respect, compassion, and curiosity. She supports clients in developing the habit of validating their own thoughts and feelings, a practice that can feel difficult at first but often leads to noticeable changes over time.
Sarah practices in Maryland and is a licensed clinical social worker in both West Virginia and Maryland.
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