A grounded place to feel supported in your healing.
Meet Sarah Slater Snyder — Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Yoga Teacher, and Certified Brainspotting Practitioner supporting adolescents, adults, families, and school communities through integrative, trauma-informed care.
Sarah Slater Snyder is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Yoga Teacher, and Certified Brainspotting Practitioner with over twenty years of experience supporting adolescents, adults, families, and educational communities.
Her work is shaped by decades professional training and personal understanding. As a mother and a daughter, she brings a grounded awareness to the patterns, pressures, and relational dynamics that shape we all move through life.
She is known for blending strong clinical cognitive-behavioral foundations with more holistic and somatic approaches that help clients heal from both the top down (brain to body) and bottom up (body to brain) to create meaningful, sustainable change in everyday life.
Meet Sarah
A whole-person approach to healing
Sarah’s background brings together counseling, education, neuroscience, and mind-body work.
She earned her BA in Exercise and Sport Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Over the years, she has worked in both private and public schools as a counselor, teacher, department chair, student advocate, and administrator, while also teaching social-emotional learning, mindfulness, and positive psychology.
Her approach is holistic, grounded, and integrative—supporting the mind, body, and spirit through evidence-based therapy, Brainspotting, mindfulness, neuroeducation, and elements of yoga. This work is designed to help clients move beyond insight alone so emotional healing and expansion are not just cognitively understood, but they are felt, lived, and embodied.
Support that goes deeper than surface processing
Sarah began private practice work as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in 2018 and later became certified in Brainspotting to offer a deeper somatic approach to trauma treatment.
Her work supports those navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, body image concerns, emotional overwhelm, relationship struggles, self-harm, bullying, abuse, and other life challenges.
For many clients, the goal is not simply to talk through what hurts. It is to understand the underlying patterns, process them through mindfully observing emotional activations in the body, and build the self-soothing tools needed to widen their window of tolerance so they can function with more steadiness, clarity, and self-trust.
Beyond traditional therapy
In addition to therapy, Sarah offers consulting, coaching, and integrative support that reflect the full scope of her work.
With a background in school counseling and administration at Punahou School, she provides mental health consulting and social-emotional trainings for school communities. She also expanded into embodiment-based work through yoga, workshops, and girls and women's circles designed to support deeper healing, emotional regulation, and reconnection to conscious community.
Across every offering, her goal is the same: to create a safe, thoughtful spaces where healing feels accessible and real change can begin.
