About Sarah

Hi, I'm Sarah.

Talking about myself does not come naturally, so I’m going to try to put myself in your shoes.  Perhaps you’re a prospective patient who wants to know if I am someone you can trust and work with. Maybe you’re a fellow provider who wants to help a patient who is not responding to traditional treatments. Or maybe someone in your life is hurting and you’re trying to figure out how to help and support them.

I have been all of those at one time or another.  I’ve tried to find providers that felt like the right fit.  I’ve been a professional looking for answers.  I’ve been a concerned family member trying to do right by someone I love and care about. 

Here’s what I’d want to know if I were you.

 

Specialties

I specialize in psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. I prescribe ketamine and provide psychotherapy to improve the lives of people suffering from treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, and eating disorders. I also diagnose and treat adults and teens with depression, anxiety, and ADD/ADHD.

Education

I graduated from Physician Assistant school in 2013 and am licensed by the North Carolina Board of Medicine. I began my career in emergency medicine and worked for many years in oncology at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke. 

I’m named as the first author in exactly one publication, a poem I wrote about the despair of working in academic medicine during the pandemic. I’m finishing up my Doctorate in psychiatry, and am also wrapping up a certification program in psychedelic assisted psychotherapy (which includes MAPS certification). 

You can check out what I’ve been up to in school here. 

Or if you’re the type of person that wants a more details, you can find a copy of my CV here.

A New Path Forward

After treating thousands of patients, I realized that illness was less about what was physically happening to a person and more about how that person felt about what was happening to them. I also grew tired of the business of medicine. The paperwork, the prior authorizations, and the inability to spend more than 15 minutes with any one patient.

I left that all behind and went into private practice in the hope of something better and more meaningful — for the opportunity to think and care deeply, to do what I wanted to do when I got into medicine in the first place: to help people like you.

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WISE WORDS

"We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness."
-Thich Nhat Hanh

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