Sara Tinker LCSW

During the first sessions, the purpose is to help the client and your therapist get to know each and to help you decide if you think the relationship will be a good fit. While it can often be nerve-wracking to sit down with someone new, it’s an important step in the process toward mental well-being.How do you approach helping people? Do you have experience working with people who have concerns like mine? Do you make treatment plans? If you do, will I be involved in creating and monitoring mine? What can I expect during the first session and subsequent sessions? What will you expect of me? Will I have homework?

I love to learn new techniques that can help clients, so in 2019 I trained in S.A.F.E. (Somatic and Attachment focused) EMDR and am enrolled in a two-year Advanced EMDR Certification program approved by EMDRIA. For 2022-23 I am a 3rd-year student in Dr. Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Therapy (gentle and effective treatments for trauma resolution) Certification program. I am a member of the Sandtray Institute and before Covid 2020 worked with most ages in sandtray therapy as well as family & couples therapy. For a year I studied with The Couples Institute for couples therapy training for a year. Psychodynamic, Self-Psychology, Object Relations & Systems Family Therapy are my foundational lens while utilizing Somatic Experiencing (SE), EMDR, and Attachment work.

• Tennessee, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, 1046