Sara Najm

She/Her/Hers

Sara uses empathy, humor, and curiosity to provide a feeling of safety and a secure base for clients to explore. She has worked with clients experiencing co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders and specializes in the areas of: anxiety, parenting, addiction, trauma, and ambiguous loss. She is a member of The Menopause Society and has a particular passion for working with individuals coping with mental health struggles related to perimenopause and menopause. Sara works with individuals, older teens (16+) to adults.

Sara blends cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and uses a humanistic framework to elicit clients’ goals and priorities. She works to help clients discover insights into their lived experience, uncover their core beliefs, and determine priorities for the lives they deserve to create. She wants clients to feel challenged to see things in new ways and reimagine the way they think about themselves, others, and the world.

She believes change is an inevitable part of being human and that every individual has a unique story and develops on their own timeline. Honoring diversity and recognizing her blind spots and biases is extremely important, privacy and safety are also prime concerns.

Sara waits all year for Minnesota summers! You can find her most happy outdoors, in the garden or taking a long walk.

Sara is a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LADC) and provides individual and group therapy under the supervision of Amy Mellum, MSW, LICSW.