Sarah Torrey has a Masters in Social Work from Simmons School of Social Work and has been working in the Providence area for 25 years and in private practice since 2008. Sarah's warm, eclectic style is grounded in Psychodynamic and Attachment theories. After many years of varied work with families and children, Sarah’s focus is now primarily on adult individual work.

Sarah has Psychodynamic, Attachment and Family Systems training and has incorporated other approaches over her years of practice, including elements of Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavior, Acceptance, and Play therapies. Her approach is relationship based and present focused, but always attends to the relevant past. She brings a deep understanding of attachment to her work with all her clients.

Sarah has a continuing interest in perinatal women’s health, infant mental health, and attachment theory across the life span. She is a 2009 graduate of the Infant Mental Health Fellowship at the Infant-Parent Training Institute of Jewish Family & Children’s Service in Waltham, Massachusetts. Sarah is now on the faculty there, where she teaches Infant Observation. She does dyadic work with new mothers and their babies, sees toddlers and young children with their families and provides both outpatient and occasional home-based treatment.

Sarah also offers clinical consultation, including via telephone or Skype.

“My curiosity about people's lives, relationships, feelings and the way they create meaning is at the heart of my practice in psychotherapy. I am deeply interested in the complexities and possibilities of family life. As human beings, we all must negotiate daily the emotional landscapes of our families, past and present. I have been doing that with adults, children and families in various capacities for over twenty years.”

“Seeking help takes both hope and courage. Psychotherapy, with its focus on new ways of thinking, being with ourselves and others, and experiencing our internal worlds, creates a caring collaboration and partnership within which this challenging work can be tackled together. My goal in therapy is to provide you with the structure and emotional safety to explore and share what isn’t working in your life—your relationships, your parenting, your work or your relationship with your body—without judgment. I believe strongly in the capacity of humans to remain open to new experience, in spite of what they may have encountered in the world to discourage that habit. I believe too that all relationships hold open the possibility for connection at a deep level: feeling seen, feeling heard and feeling felt. It’s what we all long for.”