SARAH O’CONNELL, LICSW
Sarah O’Connell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with over 18 years of experience working in the mental health field. Sarah completed her MSW at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a concentration in health care. Sarah works with clients with a wide range of concerns including depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, and substance abuse. Sarah has spent time with her family in foreign service posts abroad, giving her insight into both the opportunities and challenges of working in the federal government, as well as living abroad.
Sarah incorporates creative expression in her sessions and tailors her approach to meet your unique and specific needs. Her counseling style is warm and interactive. She combines humanistic, psychodynamic and mindfulness-based techniques such as i-rest ® as well as trauma interventions such as EMDR. Sarah also offers EMDR therapy intensives, which are a more immersive and focused form of EMDR. Scroll down to learn more.
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Sarah is accepting clients who reside in DC and VA via telehealth. Sarah is an in-network provider with Kaiser insurance.
Grief Can Mean Many Things
A 6-Week Support Group for Those Living With, Supporting, or Caring for a Loved One Through Long-Term Illness or Injury
When someone we love is living with a long-term illness or injury, we often find ourselves in the grief process long before their death, grieving the person our loved one used to be, the relationship as it was, and the future we imagined living.
This kind of grief, sometimes called anticipatory grief, is a different experience from other types of grief and brings its own challenges and isolation.
This group offers a dedicated space for people who are emotionally and/or physically caring for, living with, or supporting a family member whose illness or injury has fundamentally changed their relationship.
Together, we'll explore the complicated, often contradictory feelings that come with this:
Love alongside exhaustion
Hope alongside loss
Connection alongside grief for what's changed or gone
This is a space to feel less alone in an experience that can feel devastating.
This Group May Be a Good Fit If You Are:
Caring for a spouse, parent, sibling, or other family member with a chronic, progressive, catastrophic, or long-term condition
Noticing that your relationship with your loved one has changed in ways that are hard to name or hard to grieve
Carrying grief that doesn't feel "allowed" yet because your loved one is still here
Looking for connection with others who understand this specific kind of grief experience
Group Details
Virtual Wednesdays
12–1 PM
6 Weeks
