SARAH PULLMAN

Sarah Pullman is the founder and director of Bodymind Counselling.

Sarah has always been fascinated by the connection between our own inner worlds, our capacity for personal change, and social change on a larger scale. She believes that therapy can play an important role in building a better, more just and humane world. 

Before deciding to become a therapist, she worked for several years in the nonprofit sector, with organizations working for environmental and social change. During that time she experienced a lot of unexplained and chronic physical symptoms, which led to a deep dive into various mind-body modalities, looking for answers.

Eventually, she decided to pursue a Masters degree in counselling psychology, with a somatic specialization, at John F Kennedy University, in California, where she was fortunate to receive excellent training, experience, and mentorship. She moved back to BC in the fall of 2012 and established Bodymind Counselling shortly thereafter. Ten years later, it was finally time to grow it into a group practice with other clinicians.

Her style as a therapist is most deeply influenced by years of study of AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy). She weaves this with other training, and her own lived experience, into sessions that are trauma-informed, always curious about what is arising in the present moment, attentive to the body and what it has to share, and centered in the healing that happens when we allow, instead of blocking, our own true emotional and embodied experience. Her work with clients is compassionate, curious, and often involves humour and laughter.

Sarah is a trained and experienced provider of the Safe and Sound Protocol.

Sarah is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors, and adheres to their code of ethics and high standards of practice. She works continually to increase her knowledge and deepen her capacity to help clients. She also enjoys supervising counselling students and mentoring new counsellors.

She is happily partnered and became a mother in early 2019, which deeply changed her whole world, and reorganized most of her "free" time. She enjoys cycling with her family, reading, hiking, camping, movement practices, knitting, dancing, and deeply resting.