Sarah Liang
AMFT #141918 and APCC #16697
Sarah Liang (she/her) is a neurodiverse and LGBTQIA+ affirmative therapist and is an Emotionally-Focused Couples’ Therapist (EFCT). Sarah’s therapeutic approach is relational and systems-informed, meaning she looks beyond symptoms to understand how family history, culture, relationships, and life experiences shape the way clients think, feel, and connect. She integrates evidence and attachment based practices while tailoring therapy to each client’s unique needs, pace, and goals. In her work, Sarah often focuses on strengthening emotional awareness, communication, trust, and connection.
Her goal is to create a collaborative, safe space for her clients to explore what cycles or patterns they feel stuck in and how to break them. Sarah has had the pleasure of working with a diverse range of adults, adolescents and older adults from various cultural and religious backgrounds. Clients often seek her support for anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, life transitions, depression, and relational conflict. Her work is especially informed by an understanding of attachment and intergenerational dynamics, and she is passionate about helping clients.
As an Asian American woman and daughter of first-generation immigrant parents, Sarah brings a lived understanding of navigating multiple cultural worlds and hybrid identity. She is familiar with the experience of feeling “too much” or “not enough” in different spaces and values honoring the full complexity of her clients’ identities. Sarah approaches therapy through an intersectional lens, recognizing how culture, race, gender, sexuality, relationships, and life experiences shape each person’s emotional world.
Sarah received her masters in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology. Prior to graduate school, Sarah received her Bachelor of Art’s from the University of Denver where she was introduced to the world of Marriage and Family Therapy. After taking her first Couples and Relationship course with Dr. Howard Markman, founder of PREP (Prevention and Relationship Education Program) Sarah was invigorated by the world of systems-based approaches and attachment-based theory. Sarah is pursuing dual licensure and remains deeply committed to ongoing training, ethical practice, and thoughtful clinical growth.
Sarah is a registered associate marriage and family therapist, (AMFT #141918) and a registered associate professional clinical counselor, (APCC #16697). Sarah is currently employed by and under the clinical supervision of Grazel Garcia, LMFT #97561. Sarah welcomes sliding-scale requests from marginalized communities on a limited basis.