For those carrying what can’t be seen — the weight of trauma, uncertainty, and all the stories your body still remembers.
Let’s face the risk … together.
Trauma therapy for the body, the lineage, and the self.
Many of the people I work with have spent years in survival mode—high-functioning, capable, and quietly exhausted. Whether the stress came from early relational trauma, loss, identity shifts, or the medical system itself, their nervous systems have learned to stay alert. Through a NARM and depth-oriented approach, therapy becomes a space to slow down and let your body and story catch up with each other. Together, we explore how your survival patterns once kept you safe—and how they can now soften into connection, agency, and ease.
Hi, I’m Sara Champie, LCSW.
I work with anyone that wants to heal from intergenerational trauma and reconnect with their aliveness and their meaning. I have a special heart and interest for people carrying genetic mutations who are navigating all of the decision making, uncertainty and grief of living with hereditary cancer and risk
I get it. You did not choose this, so I’m here with you, alongside you, so you can say the unpopular things you’re not able to say anywhere else. I’ve got space for it, and I’m here to support in moving beyond the people pleasing, the “good-girling” and the shame.
Who I work with
High-Achieving Professionals Facing Genetic or Cancer-Related Decisions
You may have just learned you carry a hereditary cancer mutation—or received a diagnosis that revealed one. Suddenly, your calendar is filled with scans, consultations, timelines, and irreversible decisions.
You’re used to thinking clearly under pressure.
But now your body won’t settle. Sleep is off. Anxiety spikes. You feel emotionally frozen or overwhelmed—sometimes both.
The world still expects you to perform. Inside, everything is reorganizing.
I support professionals and leaders who are being asked to make life-altering medical decisions while still holding careers, teams, reputations, and identities built on competence. Our work focuses on helping your nervous system metabolize what’s happening—so you can move forward with clarity, agency, and self-trust rather than panic or shutdown.
Resourced Parents Navigating Genetic Risk Inside a Fracturing Family System
Maybe your genetic test result or cancer diagnosis didn’t just affect you—it activated your entire family system.
Parents minimize or panic.
Siblings disagree.
A partner doesn’t know how to show up.
Children are watching more closely than anyone realizes.
You’re used to being the steady one. The caretaker. The translator.
And yet the medical timeline is moving, and you can’t keep carrying everyone else’s emotional load.
I work with parents whose diagnosis or genetic risk has exposed long-standing family patterns—guilt, silence, self-sacrifice, conflict—right when support is most needed. Therapy becomes a place to untangle what’s yours to carry, what belongs to the past, and how to move through this moment without losing yourself or your relationships.
Queer High Performers Confronting Identity and Body Autonomy at a Medical Crossroads
You’re navigating genetic risk, cancer, or surgery conversations that suddenly make your body, identity, intimacy, or fertility feel public—examined, debated, medicalized.
Add in navigating healthcare systems that don’t fully see you, and relationships that may not be aligned on what comes next.
Your success, insight, and emotional intelligence haven’t protected you from this rupture. And you’re exhausted from explaining yourself—while trying to make decisions that will shape your future.
I specialize in working with queer professionals and leaders whose medical reality has triggered deeper questions about autonomy, safety, belonging, and self-definition. Therapy here is not about adjustment—it’s about integration, agency, and reclaiming choice in a moment that can feel profoundly destabilizing.
