Hi, I’m Sarah Natsumi Moore
Hi!
Before becoming a therapist, I spent more than fifteen years working as a commercial photographer. While I've always had a deep love for the visual arts, photography was only one part of my story. Behind the scenes, I was endlessly fascinated by psychology and human development. I spent years reading, attending workshops and trainings, exploring meditation and personal growth practices, and trying to understand what helps people heal, change, and thrive.
As a third-culture and bicultural person myself, I am especially drawn to working with expats and others navigating questions of belonging, cultural identity, and home. I also work with creatives, entrepreneurs, and neurodivergent adults seeking practical support for ADHD, as well as individuals healing from codependency, attachment wounds, and relational patterns that contribute to heartbreak, relationship difficulties, and divorce.
My work is influenced by existential therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), mindfulness, and experiential approaches that help move insight from the head into lived experience.
I work with warmth, directness, and genuine curiosity, bringing both clinical expertise and lived experience to the room. Together, we'll explore not only how to reduce suffering, but how to create a life that feels meaningful, connected, creative, and fully alive.
Certifications & Trainings
M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling | Austin, Texas 2023 - 2026
One of the few CACREP-accredited graduate counseling programs in the country that fully integrates clinical training with spiritual, ethical, and existential depth. Curriculum built around a social justice–oriented framework developing counselors across three dimensions: being, knowing, and doing.
Contemplative & Psychedelic Retreat Support |Brazil, The Netherlands, Portugal, Texas 2016 - 2026
Ten years in integration assistant roles within ceremonial and meditation retreat settings, including assisting at multiple 10-day silent Vipassana meditation retreats.
Preparation support, on-site assistance during ceremony, and post-retreat integration. Most recently studied at a 5-day IFS-informed ayahuasca retreat applying parts work within a ceremonial container. Grounded in trauma-informed care and harm reduction throughout.
Learning Love Institute | Mexico, Italy, Virtual 2021 - 2025
Two-Year Therapy Training & 2 Seminars. Rigorous experiential training in relational depth work grounded in attachment theory, inner child work, and object relations.
Focus on the movement from codependency to conscious relating, the psychology of abandonment and shame, and embodied presence as a clinical skill.
Tantra Training 1 & 2 |Brazil 2022 - 2024
Therapeutically rigorous training integrating sexuality, somatic awareness, nervous system regulation, breathwork, and relational healing.
Forms the foundation of a sex-positive, body-informed approach to sexuality and intimacy in clinical work, including psychosexual education, shame reduction, and working with clients navigating sexual identity and relational wounding.