Sarah Beth is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a North Alabama native. Leading with warmth and curiosity, she accepts her clients as they are and develops an empathic understanding of their experiences. She strives to create a safe environment for her clients through her compassionate, non-judging presence. Sarah Beth believes that weas humans need both secure connection with others and awareness within ourselves for healing to occur. It is her aim to establish a foundation of trust between therapist and client that is crucial for growth and transformation in the therapeutic process.

While earning her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from The University of Alabama, Sarah Beth began her pursuit of education in Marriage and Family Therapy. Confident in her perception of health and wellbeing as systemic in nature, she sought out training that would equip her to provide such care. She was accepted to and graduated from Auburn University’s Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy program. She completed her master’s thesis evaluating a Mindfulness Based Relationship Education Course Curriculum. Sarah Beth has continued to nourish her interest in relationship education throughout her career by facilitating adult relationship education curricula to individuals and couples. Clinically, she has familiarity working with people from all walks of life in a community mental health center, in private practice, at multiple schools, and in the home of the client. She is certified to provide Teletherapy, allowing her to serve clients located throughout the state.

Sarah Beth welcomes individuals, couples, and families at any age and stage of life. Guided by Family Systems Theory, Sarah Beth works from an attachment-based trauma-informed perspective. Common client concerns she attends to include anxiety, loss and grief, relationship (couple, family, & friend) issues, trauma, life transitions, depression, premarital counseling, coping with stress, divorce recovery, self-esteem/self-worth, and perfectionism.

Sarah Beth guides couples and families as they establish new patterns of interaction and heal unresolved injuries through the practice of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). She incorporates Experiential Therapy, Structural Family Therapy, Bowen Family Systems Therapy, and Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) techniques to help clients develop awareness, heal from traumas, and process their grief. Additionally, she utilizes the assessing and managing suicide risk (AMSR) protocol, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) practices, and applied suicide intervention skills to support her clients navigating overwhelming moments as they seek a sense of belonging within themselves and in their relationships. Sarah Beth is a certified facilitator of the PREPARE/ENRICH relationship tool, which she can involve in couples therapy or provide to couples as a standalone service.

Sarah Beth does not take lightly the permission her clients give her to discover, encourage, and challenge them in pursuit of their goals. She considers it one of the highest honors of her life to do this work.

Education:

B.S. Psychology, magna cum laude, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 2014

M.S. MFT, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 2016

License Info:

Alabama Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #L500

If you feel that Sarah Beth may be a good fit for your therapy needs, you can contact her at (256) 203-4061 or sarahbethearles@solidgroundmadison.com