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MSW, LICSW
Consultant & Trainer
Enhancing the treatment of complex trauma and dissociative disorders, Sarah offers a grounded space for clinicians and practices, providing guidance and training while creating an open environment to share their challenges and successes in working with these nuanced issues.
Meet Sarah
I'm so glad you're here.
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I believe that we all deserve to feel at peace and live fulfilling lives. I believe that a mental health clinicians' commitment to personal self-love and compassion is key to effective care for our clients. I know there is a lack of education around treating complex trauma and dissociation, leading to clients never finding full healing or, even worse, experiencing misdiagnosis and ineffective, even harmful, treatment.
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I dedicate my life's work to improving the treatment of these serious issues through consulting, supervising, and somatic treatment.
Why I What I Do
I have been in the field of clinical mental health for nineteen years. Throughout those years, I served my clients to the best of my ability, however, I often saw little improvement in clients that suffered from the most debilitating trauma. This left me feeling frustrated and lacking in my clinical work.
I want clinicians to feel prepared when a deeply wounded soul walks into their offices. I want clinical practices to have the tools to provide effective training to their teams and supervisors and have the skills and confidence to guide their staff.
I want to improve the lives of both clinicians and clients alike with my greatest mission being to improve the wellbeing of as many people as I can.
Yet, the core of my drive is my personal survival story. I have deep compassion for survivors of severe trauma, and I want to be a supportive presence along their journey to healing and fulfillment.
However, what type of support or training do clinicians or supervisors receive when they live with their own trauma? There is little to no guidance or training for clinicians to navigate their own journeys while, simultaneously, supporting clients as they navigate theirs.
This is a complex endeavor and dramatically underserved. I am hear to begin filling that gap because I understand and I know the difficulties first-hand.
By exploring ourselves in relationship to the client, clinicians can receive deeper understanding of self and drastically improve their abilities as mental health therapists.
Mental health therapy is not only the client's journey to healing. We, as clinicians, must also walk the path to self-discovery. Along our way, we learn from our clients, we can embrace ourselves within the therapeutic relationship, and unify our fragmented parts to become the impactful therapists we want to be— Spirit, Mind, and Body.
- Sarah Dionne​
To Mental Health Practices
I support mental health practices through compassionate clinical consultation, reflective guidance, and trauma-informed education grounded in both clinical expertise and lived understanding.
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I collaborate with clinicians, supervisors, and organizations to strengthen clinical care through clinician-centered support, case consultation, treatment guidance, diagnostic insight, and support with complex trauma and dissociation.
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My work may include reviewing complex cases, identifying the nuanced treatment methods for trauma and dissociation, assisting with ethical documentation and confidentiality considerations, and helping practices build systems that foster compassionate and effective care.
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Additionally, I provide Inservice Training and supportive Clinician-Centered Workshops. Workshops aim to address vicarious traumatization, peer support, counter transference and more.
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Through consultation and collaboration, I aim to help clinicians and practices feel more confident, connected, and supported in the care they provide.
Spirituality in Clinical Workspaces
As an interfaith seminarian, I guide individuals toward a comprehensive, practice that integrates spiritual awareness.
Clients experience profound grief as they process the losses resulting from trauma. A personal sense of spiritual connection is a vital component of healing.
Additionally, many survivors have been victimized by religious leaders, institutions, or cults. This type of religious trauma is often overlooked, or clinicians are how to guide clients toward a new sacred perception of spirituality.
Spirituality enables clients to access the deepest, wisest parts of themselves, allowing the greatest losses to embody meaning and facilitate healing.
Embarking on a spiritual journey invites us to explore our somatic sensations and the hidden wisdom that resides within our body-mind. Through this journey, we can access the unseen gifts that only bloom after the darkest nights of the soul.
Practice Wellbeing
Sarah offers an environment of compassion, flexibility, and support, ensuring that teams, supervisors, and organizations feel she is easily accessible and open to listening. She encourages peer supervision and collaboration to integrate teams and uplift peer support.
Reflection & Guidance
Sarah offers a grounded space for self-reflection so that supervisors and clinicians can build on practical experience through personal wisdom. Within self-reflection, therapists can discover the source of their personal responses and reactions to the client. This enables mental health clinicians to engage with clients on a more authentic and attuned level, which excels treatment efficacy.
Clinical Attunement
Working with CPTSD requires attunement with vulnerable clients. Sarah equips mental health therapists and clinical supervisors with practical skills to enhance their understanding and application of attunement.
Training and Workshops
Sarah offers Clinical Team Training to engage the mental health practice growth and team engagement. These trainings can have attached CEUs. Topics include somatic skills, IFS-informed parts work, LCT-informed skills, bilateral stimulation, and more. Clinician-Centered Workshops provide team members support, offering space to explore challenges in clinical work, receive peer support, and expert guidance. The aim of these workshops are to decrease vicarious trauma, internalization of client experiences, personal trauma activation, transference issues, and more.
Client Conceptualization
Individuals with complex trauma (C-PTSD) or dissociative disorders, such as OSDD and DID, are frequently misdiagnosed. Sarah supports the clinical conceptualization of complex cases, enabling broader awareness of differential diagnoses, improving treatment planning, and strengthening diagnostic skills.
Creative Empowerment
Creativity is fundamental to the human experience. Sarah brings unique creative methods to the therapeutic space, including sand tray therapy (for adults and children), play therapy, joyful play, sound therapy, movement, trauma focused Yoga, and creative arts. By offering clinicians new approaches, she enables them to tailor treatment individually according to diverse needs in a dynamic and intuitive way.
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Virtual and On Site
"By meeting virtually, I am able to provide clinical consulting throughout the United States.
I also provide onsite consulting to practice locations throughout the South Shore, Massachusetts."
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As a consultant, my mission is to guide mental health therapy teams to become empowered and purpose-driven. Also, by offering supportive services that make workflows more practical and manageable, mental health clinicians and supervisors can experience less stress and improve the health of the clinical team. Through mental health clinical consulting, I express my passion for improving the lives of others—both clinicians and clients alike.
Compassionate Consulting
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Effective mental health clinical consulting starts with your mission. I help practices clarify their values, strengthen leadership, and align clinical and administrative systems. Through collaborative dialogue, I guide clinical teams toward a restorative and supportive environment and build sustainable, ethical mental health care rooted in purpose. I offer practice wisdom in both group and individual settings supporting diagnostic skills and uplift the effective treatment of complex clients.
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By embracing all aspects of the self we can discover the power of self-compassion, fostering peace of mind and rejuvenated energy. In this center, we offer healing to the clients we serve, along with team unity in our practice environments.
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Contact Sarah to Discuss Contract Options, Inservice Training & Workshops, or Speaking Engagements.
