Sarah Whitman-Salkin, LMSW

Sarah (she/her) is a licensed master social worker (LMSW) and clinician based in New York City. Working from a trauma-informed perspective, Sarah aims to create a supportive, understanding environment where clients can explore past experiences, current struggles, and personal values in order to achieve self-knowledge, healing, and meaningful change.

As we all have different experiences, strengths, and challenges, Sarah takes a holistic, integrative approach rooted in relational therapy. She views the client-therapist relationship as sacred and essential, and the key to healing attachment wounds and developmental trauma. Thus, her practice is founded on ensuring that clients feel seen and cared for throughout this challenging work, and she is committed to fostering a space where clients can freely express and feel, while moving towards a deeper engagement with both their inner and outer world to live a more integrated life aligned with their values. She utilizes different therapeutic modalities (including CBT and TF-CBT, DBT skills, somatic mindfulness-based therapy, and psychodynamic approaches) to find an approach that works best for each unique client.

Whatever issues a client may be facing, Sarah engages clients from a trauma-informed, harm reduction, client-centered perspective. She is committed to anti-oppressive, non-hierarchical, LGBTQIA+ affirming practice, centering the lived experience and intersecting cultural realities of each client.

While Sarah works with individuals of all ages, she specializes in working with adolescents and young adults, and is passionate about helping those dealing with complex trauma histories, depression, anxiety, identity formation, high-risk behaviors (including self-harm, eating disorders, and substance use), and suicidality.

Sarah has experience providing individual and group therapy in New York City high schools and at The Door, a nonprofit serving marginalized and under-resourced young people. She also has nearly 10 years experience supporting learners of all ages as an executive functioning coach, and draws on these skills to support neurodivergent clients.

Sarah received her master's degree in social work from NYU Silver School of Social Work and she graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College.

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