Sarah Foor’s professional training includes a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Sophia University with a focus on somatic and art therapy. While becoming licensed as a marriage and family therapist in California (LMFT #53463) she served diverse populations in San Francisco public schools and the California Pacific Medical Center. She has also worked in North Carolina providing therapy and social services to at-risk families and youth. She graduated from the two-year comprehensive training in the Hakomi Method, a body-oriented approach to psychological healing, and also worked as a massage therapist before training as a counselor. She is passionate about honoring the wisdom of the body.
Sarah is an initiate in the Ifa/Orisa tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa in the lineage of Oluwo Falolu Adesanya, and she has made several pilgrimages to train with her elders in Nigeria. She is a certified as a Master Reiki practitioner and as a practitioner of ancestral lineage healing through Ancestral Medicine. Sarah is the mother of two amazing young girls and lives with her husband in Western North Carolina, traditional Cherokee lands. Her orientation to spiritual practice is inclusive, pragmatic, and rooted in respect for the feminine and the natural world.
