Sara Ouimette Psychotherapy

Offering telehealth for individual adults located anywhere in California. Still a few sliding scale spots left for those who might be struggling financially and in need of support.

I will be offering reduced fee online therapy for anyone in CA needing support during this time of the COVID19 outbreak. I imagine there will be many folks feeling scared, isolated and overwhelmed. If you know anyone who might benefit from this offer, please have them email me at [email protected].

"GRATITUDE is not a passive response to something we have been given, gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us. Gratitude is not necessarily something that is shown after the event, it is the deep, a-priori state of attention that shows we understand and are equal to the gifted nature of life. Gratitude is the understanding that many millions of things come together and live together and mesh toget...her and breathe together in order for us to take even one more breath of air, that the underlying gift of life and incarnation as a living, participating human being is a privilege; that we are miraculously, part of something, rather than nothing. Even if that something is temporarily pain or despair, we inhabit a living world, with real faces, real voices, laughter, the color blue, the green of the fields, the freshness of a cold wind, or the tawny hue of a winter landscape... Thankfulness finds its full measure in generosity of presence, both through participation and witness. We sit at the table as part of every other person’s world while making our own world without will or effort, this is what is extraordinary and gifted, this is the essence of gratefulness, seeing to the heart of privilege. Thanksgiving happens when our sense of presence meets all other presences. Being unappreciative might mean we are simply not paying attention." -David Whyte See more

https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org//5389ed5c-31cd-/OIM I was interviewed for this article about cannabis legalization and cannabis in therapy. Hope you like it! #cannabis #marijuana #mentalhealth #psychotherapy #harmreduction #psychedelichealing #psychedelictherapy #qualityoflife #checkindontcheckout

Just in time for Mother's Day: Is it possible to maintain friendships with your parent friends when you're not one? https://www.wellandgood.com/g/friendship-changes-with-kids/

Sharing an article about my work recently published in Oakland Magazine. Please check it out if you're interested! http://www.oaklandmagazine.com//Sara-Ouimette-Offer-Pa/

I got really moving feedback on this blog post I wrote this past summer. With the holidays having just passed, many may be reeling from challenging dynamics and loneliness associated with being around (or not being around) family. I just thought I might post the blog here, in case it may offer anyone validation, comfort, understanding, or company in what you may have experienced or are experiencing in your emotional life. https://www.saraouimette.com//the-hsp-and-c-ptsd-the-highl

A topic dear to my heart; hope to make this my life's work. Join me on Veteran's Day. https://www.fromshocktoawe.com/watch

"Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness." - Peter Levine"Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness." - Peter Levine

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain." -Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain." -Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

https://psychedelic.support/r/checking-in-not-checking-out/ Check out the article I just wrote about cannabis-assisted psychotherapy for Psychedelic Support Network. #cannabis #psychotherapy #checkindontcheckout #mentalwellness #plantmedicine

Major website overhaul. Check it out! #psychotherapy #women #trauma #PTSD #millennials #spirituality #cannabis #psychedelicintegration www.saraouimette.com

https://play.google.com/music/m/Duax2fjzh22zj4i4y2v6vvkcrh4 Check out this podcast I'm featured on talking about psychedelics and psychedelic integration. There is definitely a movement in the Bay Area!

Awe is a feeling. How important to you is it to access awe? What are the things or experiences that leave you awestruck? Is it discovering something new - something beautiful you never knew existed?