Sarah Bird, LMSW, graduated from the Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College. She is a graduate of the Family and Couples Treatment Services program at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. She also holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from New York University.
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Sarah practices relational psychodynamic psychotherapy with individuals and couples. She specializes in family conflict, self-esteem, childhood trauma, relationship issues, LGBTQIA+, disordered eating, anxiety, depression, and grief. She frequently works with artists and creatives.
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Sarah helps her patients attend to unconscious aspects of their relationships, histories, inner lives, and experiences with oppression that are keeping them stuck and unhappy. Through her approachable and gently challenging style, patients can try on new ways of being with others, such speaking and emoting freely without being judged or shamed.

The meanings of her patients’ dreams, fantasies, and creative work may also be explored. Sarah supports her patients through the sometimes difficult but deeply rewarding process of uncovering their truest selves.