Supervisor: Cheri McDonald, PhD, LMFT #27359
At A Place to Turn, we are honored to welcome Sara Garcia to our clinical team. Sara is a compassionate, culturally responsive therapist who creates a safe, supportive space where clients feel seen, understood, and empowered to show up as their authentic selves.
As a first-generation daughter of immigrants and a biracial Latina and Asian woman, Sara brings a deep awareness of how culture, family systems, and social context shape emotional experiences and identity. She is committed to offering therapy that honors each client’s lived experience while fostering healing, connection, and growth.
Sara works with children, adolescents, young adults, adults, families, and couples navigating anxiety, depression, self-esteem challenges, relationship conflict, trauma, and life transitions. Her work emphasizes understanding relational patterns and intergenerational dynamics to help clients build healthier connections with themselves and others.
Sara’s approach is attachment-based, holistic, and culturally humble. She focuses on helping clients explore emotional safety, relational cycles, and personal strengths while gently shifting patterns that may feel stuck or overwhelming.
Her work integrates:
• Attachment-Based Therapy
• Trauma-Informed Care
• Family Systems Therapy
• Relational & Intergenerational Exploration
• Strengths-Based Interventions
Sara collaborates closely with clients to increase self-awareness, build resilience, and foster meaningful, lasting change.
Sara earned her Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Alliant International University and her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from University of California, Riverside.
She has specialized training in community mental health settings, supporting children, individuals, and families in underserved communities facing systemic challenges. This experience informs her strong commitment to advocacy, accessibility, and destigmatizing mental health care.
Sara provides compassionate, client-centered therapy that is warm, curious, and empowering. Her goal is to walk alongside clients as they develop insight, strengthen relationships, and create lives rooted in connection and self-compassion.
Sara is currently accepting new clients.
To schedule an appointment, please contact info@aplace2turn.com.
Sara works with children, adolescents, young adults, adults, families, and couples. She supports clients navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, self-esteem concerns, relationship challenges, and major life transitions.
Sara uses an attachment-based, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive approach. She integrates family systems work, relational therapy, and strengths-based interventions tailored to each client’s unique needs.
Yes. Sara is trained in trauma-informed care and supports clients in processing past experiences safely while building emotional resilience and empowerment.
Yes. Sara works with families and couples to explore communication patterns, relational dynamics, and intergenerational influences that impact connection and emotional well-being.
Absolutely. Sara offers a warm, inclusive, and nonjudgmental environment, welcoming clients of all cultures, identities, and lived experiences.
Your first session is an opportunity to share what brings you to therapy, begin building rapport, and identify goals. Sara will collaborate with you to create a personalized plan that feels supportive and aligned with your needs.
To schedule a session, please contact info@aplace2turn.com.
From anxiety and depression to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), we utilize holistic talk therapies and innovative treatments like eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR).
