Reflections on Friendship in a Polarized World

Analytically oriented psychotherapist with a private practice in Northampton, MA. She treats young children, adolescents, and adults, provides clinical supervision, and is a group consultant for A Home Within. She is a former adjunct professor at Smith College School of Social Work. Sarah has presented at the local and state meetings of NASW, Smith College and locally. She was a guest on “The Art of Listening” podcast: “The Magic of Play in the Therapeutic Setting.” She completed both an analytically oriented training at the Institute for Child, Adolescent and Family Studies in New York and a postgraduate fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. She was a Teaching Fellow at the Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Teachers’ Academy with the American Psychoanalytic Association 2022/23. She is currently in her third year of study with the New Directions in Writing at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. Sarah’s writing includes an essay in the APPSAA Psychotherapy Newsletter, Nov 2024, an essay in the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, September 2023, a co-authored article in the Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 2012, and a children’s book she co-authored: “Calming Stormy Feelings: A Child’s Introduction to Psychotherapy,” 2014.