Hello, my name is Sara Riggs (she/her) and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, embodiment therapist, eco-somatic practitioner, mom and conscious earthling. I was born in NC and have lived in just about every part of this state. I received my undergraduate degree in Psychology from Appalachian State University and completed my graduate degree in Social Work at North Carolina State University. I have been working and volunteering in the mental health field for over sixteem years, from residential eating disorder treatment to community mental health and now in private practice.

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I've been learning and practicing somatic and embodiment therapies for over a decade. I've received my level 1 certification in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and currently at the intermediate level with the Embodied Recovery Institute. I have significant training and experience in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness and Ecotherapy. Other healing modalities I integrate in session with clients are the Internal Family Systems model, The Work that Reconnects, Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy, Animism/Root work and tarot. 

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I've had a deep connection with mother Earth for most of my life and experience my own healing and restorative practices through time spent with the more than human world. I found that processing emotions in a larger living container is helpful, mindfully walking and orienting to the land with our senses slows down the nervous system and allows for somatic healing, and opening ourselves to connect through acknowledgement of land's history, and our own ancestors, can aid in moving through grief and loneliness.

• Clients who have engaged in ecotherapy with me have noted feeling more calm and present in their body and able to access their self, parts, and places to heal with more clarity.