
Not your typical counseling…
With education and background in human development and psychodynamic psychotherapy, we offer services deeper than a short term solution focused approach.
About
Sara Witzler, MA, LPCC-S is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with supervisory designation. She earned her Masters of Arts in Counseling at Northwestern University. Sara felt called to Northwestern’s psychodynamic psychotherapy focused program after 18 years experience with child development and education. Her therapeutic work focuses on themes of attachment, development, and relationship which can all be involved in forms of Complex Trauma. Below are the therapy models that Sara has been certified or intensively trained in, and that she utilizes with her clients. Sara is a part of The Attunement Cooperative, which is made up of mental health professionals who are committed to excellence in the field and the natural capacity humans have to thrive.
Polyvagal Theory in Therapy
Sara completed a Foundations of Polyvagal Informed Practice Training and acted as a Small Group Consultant in an additional Foundations course
https://www.rhythmofregulation.com/polyvagal-theory
Neuroaffective Relational Model (NARM)
Sara is a NARM Informed Professional
Radically Open DBT
Sara completed a 10 day intensive training in RO DBT
Collaborative Assessment for Managing Suicidality (CAMS)
Sara has completed two rounds of CAMS-Care trainings
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Sara was a graduate student in the Counseling@Northwestern program, that immerses students in Psychodynamic theory including engaging in self-reflection as a core value
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2010/01/psychodynamic-therapy