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Master of Arts (MA) - Clinical Mental Health Counseling Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC Registered Play Therapist, RPT
Sara Watt, MA, LPC is the Owner and Director of West Chester Play Therapy. She graduated from Naropa University in Boulder, CO with her masters in Somatic Counseling Psychology (concentration in Body Psychotherapy.) Post grad school, she completed an additional two year program to become a Registered Play Therapist. After falling in love with play therapy, she opened The Denver Center for Play Therapy in Denver, CO for 11 years before moving back to her home state of Pennsylvania in 2022. Currently she is able to see Colorado clients through Telemental Health options and Pennsylvania clients in-person in West Chester, PA.
She teaches emotional awareness using the mind-body connection in both children and adults through the lens of Attachment Based Play Therapy™. Her approach lies in being fully human and continuing to find ways to love the parts that are challenging to love. She practices authenticity and has a willingness to see and move toward challenges, both in the therapeutic setting and in her everyday life.
She is honored to sit with people learning to see and accept all parts of themselves, even the parts that are labeled unlovable. Sara cultivates awareness of emotions held in the body and facilitates self-acceptance through play, relationship, mindfulness, and unconditional love.
Child mental health - Specialized strategies for common childhood disorders including attention issues, attachment problems, behavioral disorders, learning disorders, autism spectrum diagnoses, and feeding or elimination issues.
Parenting - Helping parents develop and implement strategies to address challenges that arise throughout childrearing; managing stress and increasing support
Self-esteem - Cultivating self-compassion, assertiveness, and confidence; developing ways to reduce suffering, anxiety, social withdrawal, and self-neglect
Emotion regulation - Learning how to effectively manage the ups and downs of intense emotions; developing coping skills to use in a variety of settings to calm oneself and to give an appropriate amount of space to emotions
Mind-body connection - Practicing mindfulness to draw together how the body feels physically and how the mind feels mentally; healing both physically and mentally
Self-care - Learning what effective self-care looks like and incorporating these strategies into daily life; developing an awareness of wellbeing to identify when one needs to practice self-care
Sara Watt is not in-network with any insurances.
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Years of Experience: 12 years
The Denver Center for Play Therapy, Director/Supervisor/Therapist, 2012 - Present
West Chester Play Therapy, Director/Therapist, 2022 - Present
Naropa University, Somatic Psychotherapy Counseling, 2011
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Psychology, 2005
Pennsylvania: PC014809
Colorado: LPC.0011575
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