Business Details
10 Years
experience
Your Trusted Depth Psychotherapist in Oakland, CA
Sara Ouimette is a depth-oriented psychotherapist in Oakland, CA, specializing in grief, trauma, and spiritual therapy for adults. With over 15 years of experience, she integrates Jungian, psychodynamic, and transpersonal approaches to help clients navigate life transitions, complex trauma, and spiritual emergence. Her practice emphasizes relational safety, somatic awareness, and shadow work, serving highly sensitive individuals, women, and those integrating psychedelic experiences.Certified in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and MDMA-assisted therapy protocols, she combines clinical expertise with personal healing insights. Her office provides a sanctuary for self-exploration, grounded in empathy and non-pathologizing care.
Services
Grief Counseling
Psychedelic Integration Therapy
Cannabis Use Therapy
Spiritual Therapy
Trauma Therapy
Therapy for Highly Sensitive People
Professional Consultation
Details
- Year established: 2016
Highlights and features
- 20+ years of specialized experience in trauma and depth psychotherapy
- Integrates Jungian, psychodynamic, and somatic approaches for holistic healing
- Certified in ketamine-assisted and MDMA-assisted therapy protocols
- Personal lived experience with sensitivity and trauma informs clinical practice
- Offers both in-person and telehealth sessions across California
Associations and certifications
- California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
- The Jung Institute of Northern California
Services
Grief Counseling
Specialized therapy for navigating grief and loss through depth psychology. Helps clients process tangible or symbolic losses, including disenfranchised grief, through somatic awareness and dreamwork. Supports integration of loss as a transformative journey rather than a pathology to resolve.
Psychedelic Integration
Post-experience therapy for individuals integrating insights from plant medicines or entheogens. Focuses on making meaning of non-ordinary states through Jungian shadow work and somatic processing. Addresses both challenging experiences and spiritual emergences in a non-judgmental framework.
Cannabis Use Therapy
Non-pathologizing approach to exploring cannabis relationships, whether for medical, spiritual, or recreational use. Addresses dependency patterns while honoring plant medicine's therapeutic potential. Combines harm reduction principles with depth psychological exploration of underlying emotional patterns.
Spiritual Therapy
Depth psychotherapy addressing spiritual emergence and soul loss through dream analysis and archetypal exploration. Supports clients navigating mystical experiences or existential crises using Jungian frameworks. Integrates somatic awareness to ground spiritual insights in daily life.
Trauma Therapy
Specialized treatment for complex trauma and C-PTSD using relational, body-informed approaches. Combines nervous system regulation with shadow work to process developmental trauma. Focuses on rebuilding trust through consistent therapeutic presence and somatic grounding techniques.
People
Ouimette Sara
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Sara Ouimette is a depth psychotherapist with 15+ years of experience in trauma recovery and spiritual emergence. She holds a Master's in Integrative Counseling Psychology and advanced training in psychodynamic therapy. Her practice combines Jungian analysis, somatic awareness, and psychedelic integration work.
Questions
What therapeutic approaches do you specialize in?
I integrate depth psychology, Jungian analysis, and somatic awareness with specialized training in psychedelic integration and trauma recovery.
Do you offer telehealth sessions?
Yes, I provide online therapy for California residents and in-person sessions on Mondays at my Oakland office.
How do you approach grief counseling?
I view grief as transformative rather than pathological, using dreamwork and body awareness to process both tangible and symbolic losses.
Can you help with psychedelic experience integration?
Yes, I specialize in integrating insights from plant medicines and entheogens through non-judgmental, depth-oriented therapy.
What is your experience with trauma therapy?
I have advanced training in psychodynamic approaches and 15+ years treating complex trauma using nervous system regulation techniques.
Do you accept insurance?
I operate as an out-of-network provider and can provide superbills for potential insurance reimbursement.
