Hi, I’m Sarah.
I believe that the world is imperfect and beautiful; that humans are wired for curiosity, empathy, and change; and that you are magic.
I want to help you get clear on what you want, make decisions with confidence, and get moving so you can do the damn thing - write that book, change the direction of your work, get reacquainted with your inner child, connect with the people most important to you, discover the meaning of life, change the world. If you yearn for compassionate connection and joyful affirmation as you prioritize your own decision-making, personal autonomy, and ability to show up with honesty and grace, you're in the right place!
My Approach
I love working with people and delighting in their growth. My magical practice is trauma-informed, feminist, intersectional, and joyful. The connection I cultivate in client sessions is holistic, inclusive, and careful, and aligned always with my values of autonomy, personal empowerment, and grace.
Dream it
My focus is on personal transformation, tapping into every client's unique intuition to reflect, dream, and enact positive change for themselves and, by extension, their worlds.
call it forth
Drawing on my background in university teaching and advising students of all ages (teens; BA, MA, and PhD), the work we do together is future-oriented, buildable, and actionable — piece by piece, step by step, and as author Anne Lamott says: bird by bird.
My Background
I’m a bilingual (English/Spanish), multi-passionate artist/witch, and a former university professor with a background in advising, nonviolent communication, literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. Living on the edge of Silicon Valley for a combined 20+ years, I know the importance of developing left and right-brain skills to pay the bills *and* feed our clever and complicated hearts. Since leaving academia, I have years (years!) of experience building a successful creative life — developing my art as ritual and forming relationships with kindred inspired spirits.
Find my author website with links to my fiction and creative nonfiction publications here.
My lineage
My praxis is indebted to the work of many teachers, artists, magicians, and thinkers, including but not limited to: Marshall Rosenberg, Eric Maisel, Julie Parker, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Gloria Anzaldúa, Marina Warner, Silvia Federici, Karen Yamashita, Kathy Fish, Nancy Stohlman, Julia Cameron, Karen Russell, Lindsay Mack, Casey Zabala, Maria Minnis, Laetitia Barbier, Emerald Swann and the Golden Dome School, Werner Herzog, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Leonora Carrington, Friedrich Nietzsche, Simone de Beauvoir, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Luce Irigaray, and Marie-Louise von Franz.
The Woo
Leo Sun + Capricorn Moon + Libra Rising
Enneagram 2+3 Wing
Manifesting Generator
Empath & HSP
INFJ
The cred
20+ years studying & reading tarot
Scarlet Sage SOTHA tarot certification
Tarot For the Wild Soul affiliate
Life coach training through Beautiful You Coaching Academy
B.A. Literature, Philosophy, Creative Writing
M.A. (+4 yrs toward Ph.D.) Literature, Cultural Studies, Psychoanalytical Theory, Critical Theory and Philosophy
15+ years experience teaching & advising at top universities
Certified in advising modalities and developmental theory, NACADA
Trained in trauma-informed care by CASA Santa Cruz
Trained in nonviolent communication by Art of Communication (NVC Santa Cruz)
Twice certified in Mental Health First-Aid (MHFA) by Nat’l Council for Mental Wellbeing