Welcome to Healing Fire Coaching with Sara Demetry
We believe that a coaching relationship enhances growth and movement toward goals and individual and collective healing.
About Sara:
Sara J Demetry is now offering trauma informed coaching sessions for clients who would benefit from support with personal or spiritual growth and goals related to lifestyle, coping with climate or societal change, grief, and chronic illness.
She has a lived experience with grief, climate anxiety, chronic illness, and spiritual growth and has a strong belief in the power of collective healing and mutual aid in groups.
Sara has always been passionate about bringing the body into awareness and in the power of the body's wisdom. As a therapist, she has gravitated towards modalities that involve the body. As a coach, she is freer to use her range of skills to explore self healing and regulation techniques, breathwork and ways to attune to the body's wisdom.
Sara also believes in the power of nature to heal, and encourages clients to connect with the natural world by spending time in the woods, at lakes and other natural environments, which evidence has shown is beneficial for the immune system and emotional regulation.
Sara supports clients who are anxious about climate change or political divisions to move from feeling hopeless and paralyzed to understanding their values and a positive vision for how to move forward with agency and intention.
She works with clients to gain awareness of maladaptive patterns and beliefs which can result in more freedom to make new choices that are adaptive in the present and emerging future.
She also supports the full expression of grief and understanding of how to carry the grief and learn from it, and allow it to inform forward movement in life.
Why Coaching?
Coaching and Psychotherapy are different. Psychotherapy is a medicalized model that treats medical illness, requires a diagnosis and treatment plan, whereas coaching is more oriented toward personal growth and goals for enhancing life and wellbeing.
Healing Fire Somatic Coaching provides services that encourage accountability for following through with goals, resolving barriers to growth and progress, address fears related to change, and support the development of self care and somatic based practices. We provide both traditional individual sessions as well as collective healing sessions, because we value mutual aid experiences as powerful healing medicine.
Coaching might be a great fit for you if:
- You are dealing with chronic illness and need more support than therapy has been able to offer with nervous system regulation.
- You are feeling distress about the state of the world and finding it difficult to deal with it alone.
- You want to break through old patterns and have a sense that you have been stuck but haven't figured out how to get unstuck.
- You are in your head a lot and want to get more connected to the wisdom you know your body holds.
- You have been grieving a loss, either a singular loss or an ongoing loss like climate change and political unrest.
Specialties and Qualifications:
Sara is in the process of certification for somatic coaching. She has also studied Jin Shin Jyutsu and Reiki energy work, and Buddhist meditation and philosophy for more than 20 years. She has a 20 year history as a therapist in private practice and previously worked in medical social work and with caregivers in an adult day care program for 13 years.
Specialties:
Grief work
Chronic illness
Climate and political anxiety
Self regulation techniques
Breathing techniques
Self tapping techniques
Guided imagery
Qualifications:
Masters in Social Work since 1991
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Coaching Certification pending
Jin Shin Jyutus practitioner (not currently practicing)
Reiki Master Practitioner (not currently practicing)
Meditator in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition since 1998
Certified in Internal Family Systems and EMDR
Experienced in early intervention techniques for trauma recovery that can prevent PTSD
Memberships and affiliations:
NASW
Northeast Kingdom Psychotherapists
Climate Psychology Alliance of North America
Tergar Meditation community
Karme Choling Buddhist Meditation Center
IFS Institute
EMDRIA