Sarah Hallwood, LCSW, LICSW

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Mental Health Counselor

 

Education:
Mount Holyoke College: BA
Boston College: Masters of Social Work

Language(s) Spoken: English

Certifications or Special Training: Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and expressive therapies.

Therapeutic Approach:

Sarah Hallwood (she/her) is a dedicated Licensed Clinical Social Worker, who has earned her masters in social work from Boston College. Sarah’s work has focused on children, adolescents and adults working through the lens of attachment, compassion, social/ emotional development, communication and skill development.

Using a psychodynamic, relational, person-centered approach, Sarah uses evidence-based treatment modalities to help clients rewire their brain and rewrite their narrative. Sarah supports her clients to elicit deeper thinking, gain insight into underlying reasons for their challenges, foster the development of compassion, enhance relationships, and strive to find coping mechanisms that work for the individual. Sarah helps clients to understand how trauma and stress impact the mind-body connection and how to access self growth and healing.

Sarah has expertise in working with clients that have mild to severe clinical psychological needs. Focus areas of her work include, but are not limited to the independent, family and group treatment of trauma, mood dysregulation, personality disorders, anger management, adoption issues, sexual trauma, relationship issues, bullying, gender and sexuality, PTSD, harm reduction, anxiety and depression.

Sarah works to encourage and challenge client’s patterns of thinking and behavior(s) while maintaining a positive and supportive environment though using evidence-based modalities. These include Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Motivational Interviewing. She uses these in combination with appropriate new age therapies such as Solution Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and expressive therapies.

Professional Memberships: PATH Intl, NASW

Pronouns: She/Her