Amanda Sawyer

My Approach to Helping

I balance empathy and compassion with a healthy dose of challenging you. I believe you have the power within you to change your unhealthy patterns in relationships and live a more fulfilling and embodied life. Therapy is not always a comfortable process. It requires us to turn toward ourselves in ways we likely have not done before. It is my intention to be right there with you in this process, so you remember that you are not alone. I am not a blank slate therapist and believe it is an important way to balance out the power dynamics that exist in therapy to share with you who I am. I am not the expert on your life and want to learn about you, from you. I am committed to providing you my honest feedback and building a rapport that helps you to share more and become open to the possibilities within you.

Why I am a Good Fit for You

I use an eclectic approach to therapy, and operate from an ecotherapy lens. What is ecotherapy? It looks many different ways, depending on who the client is: some will opt for outdoor sessions and some will want to explore ways in between their sessions to increase the benefits of therapy by engaging in out-of-doors homework. I weave in knowledge about our connection to nature and how a disconnect from nature often adds to human suffering. Our modern, fast-paced lives were not designed with our well being in mind. Together, we will explore ways you might increase your connection with nature, of which we are all a part, and most of us are totally separate from.