Sarah Stauffer

Experienced in several therapy modalities, my PhD afforded me the opportunity to deepen my knowledge and skills in different approaches, notably, Impact Therapy, play therapy, and art therapy. These are active, creative, and multisensory approaches used to respond your need to make changes in your life. My post-doc years  in career counseling at UNIL emphasized the importance of leveraging adaptability and finding personal balance in both private and professional matters.

We will co-construct a personal approach to address your worries and concerns based on Aderlian, systemic, cognitive-behavioral, and transactional analysis theories. I am prepared to help you face potentially traumatic experiences that have been punctual or brought on by the accumulation of several critical events in your life.

I am also available for supervision in psychotherapy (on topics such as psychological trauma, sexual abuse, child and adolescent therapy, or parenting approaches), in psychological crisis-intervention situations, in play therapy, and in art therapy.I look forward to working with you.

Therapeutic approaches:
- Impact Therapy from  Dr. Ed Jacobs
- Play therapy(theoretical orientations: Adlerian, humanist, and systemic)
- Creative arts (for ex., sand, clay, drawing, and painting)
- Trauma and grief treatment (for ex., David Finkelhor; Judith Herman; Bessel van der Kolk)

University Degrees:
PhD, Counselor Education and Practice, Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA, USA) - 2007
DAS, Spécialisation en psychothérapie d'orientation systémique, Université de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland) - 2018
CAS, Méthodes d'intervention et de thérapie d'orientation systémique, Université de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland) - 2015
EdS, School Counseling, Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA, USA) - 2005
MSc, Psychologie clinique de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, Université de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland) - 2009
MA, Counseling, West Virginia University (Morgantown, WV, USA) - 2002
BSc, Psychology, West Virginia University (Morgantown, WV, USA) - 1999

Titles and Certifications:
Psychotherapist, federally recognized in CH (systemic orientation; since  24.03.2018)
Crisis-intervention psychologist  FSP (since le 01.12.2012) and RNAPU (since 16.03.2021)Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor (RPT-S),  Association for Play Therapy (since 18.01.2013)Art-therapist APSAT,  Swiss Professional Association for Art Therapists (since 01.01.2014)
National Certified Counselor (NCC), National Board of Certified Counselors (USA, since 21.05.2002)
National Certified School Counselor (NCSC), National Board of Certified Counselors (USA, since 21.05.2006)

Professional  Memberships:
- Fédération Suisse de Psychologues (FSP, CH)
- Association Vaudoise de Psychologues (AVP, CH)
- American Counseling Association (ACA, USA)
- American Psychological Association (APA, USA)
- Association for Play Therapy (APT, USA)
- Association Professionnelle Suisse des Art-Thérapeutes (APSAT, CH)
- Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW), a division of ACA
- International Association for Mariage and Family Therapists (IAMFT), a division of ACA
- Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Identities (SAIGE), a division of ACA