Healers and Practitioners
Sarah Dubreuil Karpa
MEd MSW RSW
Hi y’all, I’m Sarah (she/her). My educational background is a winding road highlighting my diverse interests, including the expressive arts, the outdoors, experiential learning, and supporting people and communities. This has had a profound impact on how I work as I have witnessed how diverse areas can overlap to create unique opportunities for therapeutic collaboration. My experiences using therapeutic techniques, the expressive arts, and exposure to nature in combination has changed how I look at working holistically, from which Wild Passages was forged.
Clinically, I work from a trauma informed perspective, coming from a context of empowerment and social change. Incorporating techniques I have been trained in (including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), art and expressive arts therapies, solution focused brief therapy (SFBT), and narrative therapy), I like to work holistically and collaboratively with the client. I have worked with clients ranging from early childhood to adult, supporting them through a variety of situations including mental health concerns, addictions, domestic abuse, homelessness, grief and loss, identity (re)discovery, and crisis support. I have experience in providing single session, brief, short term, and long term therapy meeting the client where they are at and what their needs are at the moment.
As an artist (and I use that term lightly), I typically work in mixed media including poetry, collage, acrylic and watercolor paint. Often incorporating different modalities into one piece (ex- embed a poem within a visual art piece that includes collage aspects and traditional visual art mediums). My work tends to be non-representational in nature, but evoke feelings and images unique to the viewer. Rarely do I plan my art, preferring to allow my pieces to grow organically through emotions and thoughts that arrive through interactions and experiences. As inspiration can arise in different ways, sometimes my art is layered in nature, reflecting how we let some things about ourselves show while keeping other pieces private or hidden. To email Sarah, use link below. To learn more, check out her website. To make an appointment BOOK NOW.
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