Sarah Soto, LPC

Sarah Soto brings six years of professional counseling experience to her clients, working with people navigating intense trauma, psychological crisis, addiction, anxiety, depression, stress management, unhealthy patterns, self-image concerns, interpersonal relationship difficulties, and everyday life challenges. She has established strong therapeutic connections with individuals from varied socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, ages, and life stages and has led mindfulness training and stress-relief exercises as part of her practice.

She practices from a person-centered, integrative, and eclectic perspective and has pursued specialized training in EMDR, mindfulness, DBT, sexual trauma, and addictions. Sarah identifies as culturally competent and is an advocate for queer and gender non-conforming people. She holds a Masters Degree in Counseling, a Bachelors Degree in English, and a Bachelors Degree in Radio, Television, and Film. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - and a Nationally Certified Counselor, credentials that reflect her formal training and professional standards.

Passionate about the work, Sarah describes therapy as a calling rather than just a job. In session she begins by attending to the person in front of her - their energy, concerns, intuition, information, and goals - and she approaches each client as an individual doing the best they can with what they have. She values the resilience and bravery involved in seeking change and frames therapeutic progress as a mix of visible growth, subtle emotional shifts, small and large victories, and behavioral adjustments that lead to relief and insight.

Sarah emphasizes the importance of a strong counselor-client relationship and aims to bring authenticity, presence, empathy, knowledge, acceptance, patience, and skill to her work. She sees the therapist role as someone who can safely hold personal material and guide healing toward a fuller version of the self. In the therapy room she is approachable and practical - she often sits cross-legged, speaks with expressive gestures, draws diagrams to clarify concepts, and with permission will model or practice breathing and meditation techniques alongside clients. Her approach embraces the holistic elements of healing and combines humanistic, goal-centered, person-centered, integrative, and eclectic methods. Humor, immediacy, and presence are tools she values, and she models interventions she would be willing to try herself. Overall, Sarah views therapy as both an art and a science and is committed to ongoing learning to better support each person she meets.