As a retired First Responder with a Master’s degree in Criminal Justice, Sara works with first responders ready to acknowledge the impact of frontline trauma on their mind and body by incorporating tools and techniques from both Eastern and Western healing modalities to help them reclaim health and vitality – a sense of being alive

As an intuitive excavator, Sara uses her insatiable curiosity and love of learning to investigate chronic health issues and assist both individuals and agencies process stress and trauma to bring systems into balance. With a consistently expanding knowledge framework, Sara is able to creatively problem solve persistent systemic health symptoms activated by stress on and off the job.

Sara combines her career experience as a Family Behavioral Therapist, Juvenile Probation Officer, and a 911 Dispatcher with her training as a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner to meet First Responders where they are mentally, emotionally, and physically. A dynamic and diverse career has led Sara to her passion space of creating individualized wellness plans, strategic trainings, and consulting with agencies to create functional wellness programing; ultimately empowering First Responders to practically put their mask on first.

Credentials:

• Certified Mental Health Coach – (8/2024)

• Functional Diagnostic Nutrition – Practitioner (2/2021)

• Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner through the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP)

• American Association of Christian Counselors member – (8/2024)

University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH)

• Master of Science in Criminal Justice Emphasis in Correctional Philosophy (August 2008)

• Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice (June 2007)

• Domestic Violence Counseling Certificate (June 2007)

Classes Taught:

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