Dr. Sarah K. Samman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She primarily worked with adults in a variety of configurations -individual, couple, and family- in outpatient and residential treatment centers, behavioral health institute, transplantation institute, and non- and for-profit community and group agencies.
Sarah is a Medical Family Therapist and doctoral level couple and family therapist specializing in strength-based therapeutic approaches to working with individuals of the global majority, i.e., Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). She relies on decades of research that endorses the active exploration of the biopsychosociospiritual influences on individuals and their precious relationships. She is deeply committed to issues of interpersonal and social justice and specialize in working with couples struggling with experiences of interculturalism, internationalism, spirituality, and gender and power on their intimate couple and extended family relationships. She utilizes a post-modern lens, specifically Solution Focused Therapy and Socio Emotional Relationship Therapy, with an inclusive and intersectional Feminist Family Therapy grounding. Sarah ultimately believes that everyone is deserving of connection, hope, engagement, and empowerment in one’s journey of healing as well as confidence in their influence on their relationships and world.
Sarah earned two master’s degrees in Psychology, Health Psychology (MS) from Capella University as well as Counseling Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy (MA) from Lewis & Clark College. She holds a post-master’s certificate in Medical Family Therapy (PMC-MedFT) as well as a doctoral degree (PhD) in Marital and Family Therapy from Loma Linda University.