About Sarah

Hi, I’m Sarah. I’m so glad you’re here.

Many of us move through life disconnected from our feelings, intuition, expression and deepest needs. Whether through trauma, mis-attunement from caregivers, or experiences that taught us it wasn’t safe to be ourselves, we can lose access to capacities that are our birthright: vitality, connection, authentic expression, and a body that feels like home.

My work is about reclaiming and repairing what was once natural but became interrupted or shut down—and discovering that it is possible to heal from trauma, develop new internal resources and find freedom from old patterns.

Work With Me

Modalities I Work With

My approach has evolved over more than 20 years, shaped by experience, learning and what has genuinely proved useful. Underpinning it is the belief that intellectual understanding alone is not enough: lasting change also happens at the level of the brainstem, body and tissue. I also trust in something beyond the personal self—in soul and the wider field of life. These are some of the modalities that inform and build upon my integrative approach.

Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Havening Techniques®

Body-Mind Centering®

Soul Centered Psychotherapy

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

My Story

For a long time, I lived with an underlying pattern of "freeze" in my system. As a child, I often felt like I was standing just outside the circle of play. I developed a belief that I wasn't the creative kid—the one with the spark. That early imprint created a longing that took me a long time to name: to feel more free and uninhibited.

My search for that freedom led me to India at age 21, marking the start of a 25-year journey through psychotherapy, spiritual lineages, and somatic healing. I spent decades on meditation cushions and yoga mats, developing a capacity for deep listening. But it wasn't until I stepped into the worlds of dance, improvisation, and Body-Mind Centering that I discovered the doorway to my own aliveness.

These practices became places where I could develop capacities that never fully had the chance to emerge, often in shared relational spaces that continually invited me towards new edges in myself.

  • Professionally, I have spent nearly 20 years working in the field of trauma, specialising in modalities like Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and EMDR.

    My work is grounded in the belief that many therapies only address "upper level" symptoms. To create lasting change, I believe we have to work on the levels of the nervous system, body, and soul, where trauma is stored. I’ve integrated these tools to help my clients move beyond intellectual understanding so they can create real change.

    My own life has been the laboratory for this work. Through using Havening to process the loss of my father or prepare for childbirth, poetry to find meaning and a way to be with the challenges of being a solo mumma, and a range of other psycho-spiritual practices, I have learned that the body is an incredible vehicle for being with and digesting life, and for listening and responding to what is calling.

    I live on Wathaurong country in Torquay in Australia, where the ever-changing oceans and ancient rocky cliffs nourish  and inform my practice. Whether in a 1:1 clinical session or a somatic group workshop, I am committed to creating the conditions for curiosity and exploration, where emergent discoveries lead us to the path of healing and aliveness.

What I Believe

  • one that recognises mind, body and soul as integral components of a whole—in order to create lasting change.

  • By changing how an experience is held in the body, experience itself starts to shift.

  • We are relational beings. It’s through “shared relational fields” that we grow.

  • (Not more fixation on trauma.)

  • Real change happens at the deepest levels of our self and needs to be integrated through new sensorimotor loops.

  • We can experience both healing and expansion through movement, improvisation, and the wisdom that emerges from play.

A woman, Sarah Rosenberg, somatic psychotherapist, with reddish-brown hair wearing a brown jacket and blue pants stretches her arms while standing on a beach under a partly cloudy sky.

My Certifications & Training

  • Deep Brain Reorienting Therapist (Levels 1- 3 + Advanced Sudden Sound Training and Alexander Technique Interweaves)

  • Somatic Movement Education®, Body-Mind Centering® completed 2018

  • Registered trained mindfulness meditation teacher, Member of Australian Teachers of Meditation Association (ATMA)

  • Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy - completed 2015

  • Soul-Centred Psychotherapy (4.5 years training)

  • Supervision Training - VICSERV

  • Registered trained teacher, Secret Elements Qi Gong and Ashtanga Yoga

Work With Me

  • "I went to Sarah wanting to work with a somatic psychotherapist, I also specified wanting to use EMDR to address traumatic injury. I'm so grateful for the experience, it really has opened my life up in ways that are hard to put into words. One of the best investments I've ever made. I felt safe and supported by Sarah the whole time. She is gentle and solid in her lead and knowledge. Her ability to bring somatic techniques into our sessions was like finally receiving an education I'd always needed. As a result I was thoroughly equipped for the EMDR sessions which provided the release I had secretly hoped for. The experience was truly monumental, I didn't expect it to be possible. I highly, highly recommend working with Sarah as soon as you can. Thanks again and again!"

    Cara

  • "Sarah has a way of getting deep into things while keeping you feeling completely safe and calm. Her sense of humour combined with her compassion, intellect and openness make her a great professional, and the techniques she uses are powerful and quite life-changing."

    Narda Shanley

  • "Sarah provides a very safe and truly non-judgemental environment and is clear in explaining the work that we do together so I have genuine freedom to be all that I am in the room. I also enjoyed Sarah’s humour – this is very important to me in a therapist as I use humour a lot and need someone comfortable enough to go on that ride with me; that was certainly my experience with Sarah. "

    Sandy

  • "I began working with Sarah out of a need to explore some of my habits and patterns on a deeper psychological level. I found the few sessions I had with Sarah incredibly helpful, enlightening and powerfully therapeutic. Sarah has a way of making you feel incredibly safe, respected, accepted and cared for. She is a natural warmth and holds a space in a way that allows for deeper exploration and expression to take place. Sarah introduce a few different processes into our sessions, which I found to be very powerful. I was able to shed light on unresolved emotional experiences and beliefs from childhood and experiment with new ways of being with myself which felt lighter, stronger and gave me a greater sense of freedom."

    Anna