Business Details
10 Years
experience
Depth Psychotherapy for Wholehearted Healing
Sara Ouimette is a depth psychotherapist based in Oakland, CA, specializing in transformative therapy for adults navigating grief, life transitions, and spiritual emergence. With over a decade of experience, our practice is rooted in depth psychology, emphasizing the integration of unconscious patterns into conscious awareness to foster self-compassion and personal growth. We specialize in working with highly sensitive individuals, women, and those exploring psychedelic integration or cannabis use.Our approach is relational, intuitive, and grounded in Jungian, psychodynamic, and transpersonal traditions, prioritizing emotional safety and holistic healing. We hold advanced certifications in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and MDMA-assisted therapy training, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of emerging therapeutic modalities. Our commitment to ethical, client-centered care has established us as a trusted resource in the Oakland community and beyond.
Services
Grief Counseling
Psychedelic Integration Therapy
Cannabis Use Therapy
Spiritual Therapy
Therapy for Highly Sensitive People
Trauma Therapy for Women
Professional Consultation
Details
- Year established: 2016
Highlights and features
- We offer over 10 years of experience in depth psychotherapy with a focus on trauma and spiritual emergence.
- Our approach integrates Jungian, psychodynamic, and transpersonal traditions for holistic healing.
- We specialize in supporting highly sensitive people and women through complex emotional challenges.
- Advanced training in ketamine-assisted and MDMA-assisted therapy protocols ensures cutting-edge care.
- Our practice prioritizes emotional safety and personalized treatment plans tailored to individual needs.
Services
Grief Counseling
Grief counseling honors loss as a transformative process, supporting individuals through tangible or symbolic grief. We explore disenfranchised grief, caregiver bereavement, and complex mourning patterns. Our depth-oriented approach helps clients integrate loss into personal growth while addressing emotional barriers. Sessions focus on creating safe spaces for expression and developing coping strategies tailored to individual healing timelines.
Psychedelic Integration Therapy
Psychedelic integration therapy helps clients process non-ordinary consciousness experiences from plant medicines or ketamine. We address both challenging and insightful journeys through somatic awareness and Jungian shadow work. Our practice emphasizes grounding techniques, meaning-making, and long-term psychological stability following psychedelic experiences, ensuring ethical harm reduction practices.
Cannabis Use Therapy
Cannabis use therapy explores therapeutic and habitual cannabis relationships through a non-pathologizing lens. We address dependency concerns, medicinal applications, and mindful usage patterns. Our approach combines harm reduction principles with depth psychology to examine underlying emotional needs and develop balanced self-care strategies for conscious cannabis integration.
Spiritual Therapy
Spiritual therapy addresses soul loss, existential questioning, and spiritual emergence through Jungian analysis. We incorporate dreamwork, archetypal exploration, and shadow integration to resolve spiritual disconnection. This practice supports clients navigating mystical experiences, religious trauma, or existential crises while maintaining psychological safety and grounding.
Therapy for Highly Sensitive People
Specialized therapy for highly sensitive persons addresses overstimulation, emotional overwhelm, and boundary challenges. Our approach validates sensitivity as strength while developing resilience strategies. Sessions focus on nervous system regulation, self-compassion cultivation, and reclaiming creative potential through somatic experiencing and depth-oriented techniques tailored to HSP neurodivergent needs.
People
Ouimette Sara
Therapist
Sara Ouimette is a licensed marriage and family therapist with advanced training in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and MDMA-assisted therapy protocols. She specializes in depth psychology, supporting clients through grief, spiritual emergence, and psychedelic integration. Her practice combines Jungian analysis with somatic awareness to address trauma and complex sensitivity.
Questions
What services do you offer?
We provide grief counseling, psychedelic integration therapy, cannabis use therapy, spiritual therapy, and trauma treatment for women and highly sensitive individuals.
How do I schedule a consultation?
Contact us via email or our contact form to schedule a free 10-minute phone consultation for in-person or online therapy.
Do you offer telehealth sessions?
Yes, we offer secure video sessions for clients throughout California.
What is depth psychotherapy?
Depth psychotherapy explores unconscious patterns, inner child wounds, and spiritual questions to promote holistic healing and self-discovery.
Are you accepting new clients?
We typically respond to inquiries within 24 hours on business days to confirm availability for new clients.
What is your approach to psychedelic integration?
We provide nonjudgmental support to process psychedelic experiences through depth psychology, focusing on emotional, spiritual, and psychological integration.
Reviews (3)
Ken B.
Aug 28, 2019
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I have had the professional honor of knowing Sara for the past five years. Sara is one of the most knowledgeable, intuitive and compassionate psychotherapists I have ever worked with in my twenty years of Bay Area service. In addition to having the utmost faith in her as a therapist, I have also greatly benefited from her wisdom and insights as a trustworthy consultant. I have been particularly impressed with her deep understanding of how trauma and attachment intersect as well as her ability to help others enhance their own personal post traumatic resilience. Her progressive evidenced based
H. S.
Jul 25, 2018
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Sara is an excellent therapist. She is very compassionate, intuitive and insightful. She has a depth about her that really helps her to connect with another person's emotional experience. She helps her clients feel very seen and cared for. I definitely recommend her.
Melanie H.
Jun 28, 2018
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Sara Ouimette, MFT is an excellent listener and has an exceptional understanding of how to work with trauma. She is prompt and reliable. Highly recommended.
