ABOUT ME
Hello and welcome. I’m Dr. Sarah Bond, a psychotherapist and psychologist resident offering trauma-informed, holistic psychotherapy to adults located in Oregon.
Psychotherapy, the study of Soul, is my life’s deepest calling and truest purpose. In my personal life and my work as a therapist, I gain guidance and inspiration from the phenomenon of “living the questions,” as described by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. I find solace in cultivating relationship to uncertainty, solitude, and the darkness that exists both within myself and the wider world. I hope to facilitate experiences whereby my patients come to expand their capacity to engage their lives more fully, holding a deeper sense of presence and an ability to orient toward beauty.
I hold a doctorate in clinical psychology from George Fox University. Throughout my years of schooling, I received training in areas including trauma, attachment theory, identity development, mood symptoms, relationship issues, spiritual inquiry, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and dream analysis. I work well with individuals seeking to dive more deeply into their inner worlds.
My goal as a therapist is to help you expand your capacity to engage with life more fully. Through our work together, you can deepen your sense of presence, discover inner strength, and move toward a life oriented around growth, meaning, and beauty.
Wherever you find yourself on your mental health journey, I’m here to support you!
I work under the supervision of licensed psychologists Dr. Kimberly Coppersmith and Dr. Megan Cormier Castaneda.
TRAINING
My professional journey began in 2017, when I started volunteering in my community while completing my undergraduate degree in psychology. I entered graduate school with experience as a crisis counselor, an equine therapy facilitator, and a residential worker supporting youth and vulnerable adults impacted by sexual abuse.
During the five years of study and practice involved in my doctoral degree, I provided individual, couples, and group therapy in settings including community mental health, university counseling, and inpatient psychiatric care. In 2024, I received my doctorate in clinical psychology from George Fox University, a program specializing in the integration of spirituality and psychology.
The past seven years of journeying alongside others as they navigate darkness, solitude, suffering, and difficulty has offered me unique insight into the beauty and complexity of the human experience. Drawing inspiration from my clients, as well as my own personal journey through spirituality and dark nights of the soul, I sought out additional training opportunities, gaining certifications in trauma-informed care, ecopsychology, and somatic parts work.
AREAS OF INTEREST
I specialize in working with depression, spirituality, and trauma. Clients who work well with me often resonate with a depth-approach to their mental health, seeking to understand their core wounds and heal holistically. I have significant experience working with clients in the following areas:
Anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders
Grief and bereavement
Spiritual or religious issues
Relationship, intimacy, and sexual issues
Pregnancy, miscarriage, and abortion
Trauma and PTSD
Self-esteem and identity development
Attachment disruptions
Health-care workers, therapists, acupuncturists, and healers
Somatic and embodied healing
Dream work
Nervous system healing
APPROACH
While I approach therapy as more of an art form than a skill set, I draw heavily from existential and psychoanalytic approaches. I seek to cultivate a relationship wherein my patients are free to explore their inner worlds, so they may come to know themselves more deeply, loosening the grip of past traumas and putting words to neglected parts of Self to create lives of greater authenticity, freedom, and meaning.
I hold reverence for the unconscious ways our psyches aim to guard and protect us from suffering, and trust the wisdom of the psyche to reveal the path of healing. Additionally, I prioritize the innate knowing of the body and utilize embodied and somatic interventions in my work, as healing requires first that our bodies and nervous systems are safe to unravel.
I view psychotherapy as the sacred endeavor of coming to more fully know and inhabit the expansiveness existing within oneself.
RESEARCH
My dissertation, Prayer of the Body: Reflections on Archetypal Divine Feminine Figures in Embodied Spirituality, was an integration of post-jungian theory, spirituality, and embodiment perspectives. I explored the experiences of individuals who encountered divine feminine archetypes in a way that helped them to become more at home in their bodies.