Sarah Saffian

Sarah Saffian approaches her work as a psychotherapist with empathy, clarity, and humor. Her hybrid style is mindful and practical, and infused with unconditional positive regard for her clients. She works with adults in areas including anxiety, depression, adoption, infertility, perinatal, sexuality, loss and grief, relationships, and life stage transitions.

In addition to being a therapist, Sarah is also a writer and a teacher. Her memoir, Ithaka, chronicles her experience of being an adoptee who was found by her biological family. She has taught memoir and journalism at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, Sarah Lawrence College, NYU, and the New School. She has also contributed to publications including The New York Times, Yoga Journal, The Village Voice, and The San Francisco Chronicle, and created an online course about identity through Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Blending her two main areas of interest and expertise, Sarah has created a model called Therapeutic Writing, using memoir prompts as a frame through which to examine experiences, encouraging deeper, clearer self-reflection, processing, and discovery. When appropriate, she uses Therapeutic Writing with individual clients, as well as in group workshops.

Sarah counsels individuals, couples, and groups in private practice, both virtually and in-person in Brooklyn Heights.