About Me

I am a complex trauma and dissociation therapist! My clinical areas of strength include childhood trauma/Complex PTSD/PTSD, complex dissociation, complex family dynamics, anxiety, depression, processes of grief, healing perfectionism, and promoting integration between the mind and body. I work with you to help you access the internal resourcing within in aim of promoting a healthy self-concept. Working collaboratively to assist you in reaching your best emotional, mental, and spiritual alignment is the focus of my practice and my writing. I practice from a bottom-up approach while looking through a psychodynamic, trauma- and attachment-focused lens to help you heal your internal wounds and find safety within. As many of us are, I, too, am on my own healing journey. I understand the complexity of wanting alignment and certainty, to the point of necessity and just how important the experience of feeling ourselves is.

​At this time, I am EMDR trained (2022) and have completed extensive training in applying EMDR to complex trauma presentations and those that experience complex dissociation (2022-2023). I am also trained in the application of Clinical Hypnosis (Level 1; 2022), and Ego State Therapy (Level 1; 2023).

In my blog, you will meet the spirals of healing—passageways that can feel eerily similar or reflective of past trauma but are the only routes to healing. By moving through them, we can find our way out of the trauma and into ourselves even though it will feel just as hard if not harder than having endured the trauma, itself. Along with exploring these spirals of healing, I will be offering ego state scripts and integrative exercises, aimed to help you to interact with the various parts / internal experiences that may show up inside of you throughout the process.

​-Sarah Vassileff, MA, LCPC

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