Holistic therapy to reconnect with your wise, confident & creative Self
Virtual therapy for sensitive, thoughtful women in Ontario
Rooted in the belief that within every person exists a wellspring — a living source of wisdom, creativity, and innate capacity for healing.
This is a space to support you in returning to that source.
You don’t need to work harder to be okay.
You’ve spent so much of your life trying to hold it all together — managing anxiety, pushing through exhaustion, chasing calm that never seems to last. Beneath the striving, there’s a quiet part of you that’s simply tired — longing to rest + soften, to feel safe in your body, to trust that who you are is already enough.
Here, therapy is not about fixing what’s broken, but about remembering your wholeness.
Through an integrative approach that honours the interconnection between body, mind, spirit, and the natural world, you are invited you to reconnect with your natural rhythm + honour your internal seasons — to heal, to grow, and to live from the deep intelligence that has always been within you.
You might be here because…
You spend a lot of time in your head overthinking and feel disconnected from your body and your needs
You feel chronically anxious, burnt out, or disconnected from joy
You are stuck in cycles of perfectionism, people-pleasing, or self-criticism
You find yourself struggling with emotional overwhelm, shutdown, or inner numbness
You are navigating a big life change that’s stirred confusion or self-doubt
You are longing for more ease, creativity, and authenticity in your life + relationships
You feel confused about what you even want in life
Sarah Cifuentes | MSW, RSW
registered social worker | psychotherapist | human, being.
Welcome — I am so glad you are here!
I help sensitive, thoughtful women who feel disconnected from themselves — caught in cycles of perfectionism, burnout, or emotional numbness — reconnect with their inner wisdom and creativity through therapy that integrates the body, mind, and spirit.
My style is collaborative, intuitive, grounded in compassion and curiosity, equipped with an air of playfulness.
Through an integrative, trauma-informed approach that blends Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, mindfulness, somatic and breathwork practices, our sessions become a process of reconnecting to your inner wellspring.
Together, we explore the parts of you that feel anxious, perfectionistic, or shut down — not to fix them, but to listen. Healing begins when you slow down long enough to reconnect with the self beneath the striving.
therapeutic offerings
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Personalized 1:1 sessions to support you to cultivate self-awareness, identify deeply rooted patterns + habits, deepen your relationship to yourself and others, gain tools to effectively manage stress and difficult emotions, shift patterns to live a life in alignment with your personal values, more connected to your body, mind and spirit.
I utilize a holistic and integrative approach, acknowledging the interconnected layers of your being—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. First, we begin by telling your story, examining your relationships and life experiences. We may also explore experiential exercises to support emotional processing and self-discovery, such as, meditation, mindful movement, breath work, expressive arts, parts work, somatic techniques, embracing the power of the body and senses in the healing process to support deeper self-exploration and transformation.
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Eye Movement Desensitization + Reprocessing (EMDR) is an extensively researched form of therapy, which is effective in treating symptoms of PTSD and trauma. It operates from the premise that negative beliefs, feelings, and behaviours are the result of unprocessed memories.
In session, clients are asked to focus on a specific traumatic memory with attention given to the negative image, belief, and body sensations related to this memory. Clients are then asked to focus on a positive belief that would indicate the issues was resolved. While focusing on the distressing memory, the therapist will begin sets of side-to-side eye movements or tapping and the client will be guided to notice what comes to mind after each set. Experiences include shifts in insight or changes in images, feelings, or beliefs regarding the past event, including a reduction of distress associated with the memory.
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Breathwave is a gentle, trauma-sensitive + ceremonial style of conscious connected breathwork that can produce altered states of consciousness, allowing deeper access to our physical, emotional, and energetic bodies. This practice can support: integrating and processing emotional experiences, regulating the nervous system, expanding one’s neural potentiality for wholeness, deepening connection to ourselves and the web of life.
Our breathing is a direct reflection of our relationship with life. Breathing is generally limited and unconscious; in fact, the average person only accesses 20 - 30% of their breathing capacity. Conscious awareness of our breathing can support increasing our openness + aliveness in life, supporting personal growth, more balanced relationships, and optimal health.
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I am passionate about creating a safe space for individuals to openly explore their intentions, expectations, and concerns surrounding psychedelic medicines. It is my hope that this will support others to navigate these experiences with greater intention, care, and respect in order to mitigate risks and maximize potential benefits.
Integration is essential to support the weaving of insights gained from peak non-ordinary states of consciousness into one's life in a meaningful and embodied way. This is how we can take these experiences to change our life in the present moment. This process may include exploration of themes, emotions or challenges arisen during the experience.
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Embodied, experiential dreamwork is a unique therapeutic practice of working with dreams. It explores the connection between dreams and bodily sensations to uncover deeper emotional and psychological truths. It employs techniques from Focusing-Oriented Therapy to help individuals embody and experience the feelings and messages of their dreams, rather than just interpreting them in an intellectual way. This approach facilitates a deeper integration of dream content with personal healing and insight, enhancing emotional processing and self-awareness.
this is an invitation to pause
press your feet into the Earth beneath you, release your jaw, relax your shoulders down your back, inhale, feel your lungs expand, follow with an even longer exhale, letting go, repeat
allow each exhale to drop you deeper into your Self
Feeling curious?
If you are ready to reconnect with the wellspring within you — the quiet, steady place that knows how to heal — I would love to meet you.
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus