For 2022 I’m a 3rd year student in Dr. Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing Trauma Therapy (gentle and effective treatments for trauma resolution) Certification program. I am a member of the Southern Sandtray Institute and work with most ages in sandtray therapy as well as family & couples therapy. I study with The Couples Institute for couples therapy training. I am am member of Diane Heller Poole’s master Therapist Circle for the study of treating early childhood attachment and developmental trauma. Psychodynamic, Self-Psychology, Object Relations & Systems Family Therapy are my foundational lens while utilizing Somatic Experiencing (SE), EMDR, and Attachment work.
-Anais Nin
In the 1980’s my love for the mind-body-spirit connection led me to a graduate degree in Exercise Physiology & Wellness, with a research focus and thesis: Aerobic Fitness & Stress Perception. I studied Yoga & Meditation at Pennsylvania Himalayan Institute, later traveling & studying in India and Nepal. My graduate training at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville included stints at a clinic for victims of sexual abuse, community mental health, and later after working in acute adolescent psychiatric/A & D and in-home adolescent/child & family treatment, I opened a private practice in 1992. More recently, I had the opportunity to train with Rev. Becca Stevens, Founder of Nashville’s Magdalene Program in 1997, now called Thistle Farms, designed to heal, empower, and employ female survivors of human trafficking, prostitution, and addiction. I also worked with Mending Hearts, whose mission is to provide shelter, hope and healing to women who may be homeless due to addiction and co-occurring mental health disorders. Currently most of my clients have experienced trauma, either Little “t” trauma or Big “T” trauma, acute, chronic.
One of the reasons I connect so well with my clients is I’ve had such a diversity of experiences. I know the stress of the hard work, a long-distance relationship, losing family, career change, chronic pain, loss, recovery, dealing with a loved one’s addiction, blended families, raising children, spiritual crisis & searching, divorce after a long marriage, and dealing with aging loved ones and dementia. I have experienced the healing of therapy, support & recovery groups, body-energy work, and can offer compassion and hope from my own experience, as well as from my professional training. I help clients create a life of joy despite the challenges. I genuinely enjoy helping people and have both the tools and the experience to help guide clients through better communication, deeper connections, family problems, healthier boundaries, major decisions, more authenticity, and most importantly the healing process. For those needing an enhanced level of privacy and discretion, therapy is provided online.
Psychotherapy is the art of finding The Angel of Hope in the midst of terror, despair, and madness.
~ Chloe Madanes
A sacred process of the therapist hearing & holding the client’s pain.
~ Sara J. Tinker
Love is a constant process of tuning in, connecting, missing, and misreading cues, disconnecting, repairing, and finding deeper connection. It is a dance of meeting and parting and finding each other again. Minute to minute and day to day.
~ Sue Johnson
Beneath every behavior there is a feeling and beneath each feeling there is a need. When we meet that need rather than focusing on the behavior, we begin to deal with the underlying source of the problem and not the symptom of problem behavior.
~ Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Sara Jane Tinker
Licensed Therapist
Offices
tinker.sarajanelcsw@gmail.com
Contacts
(865)771-2448
tinker.sarajanelcsw@gmail.com
saratinker@tennesseepsychotherapyandtraumahealing.com
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami
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