About Sara

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Sara Showalter Van Tongeren, LMSW

Sara is the founder of The Flourishing Collective and provides biweekly case consultation to TheFloCo team. She has co-authored a book titled, The Courage to Suffer, as well a peer reviewed theory paper on the Existential Positive Psychology Model of Suffering. Additionally, her blog has over 125,000 readers.

Sara is a board certified therapist that is licensed in New York, Michigan, and Virginia who specializes in trauma, attachment focused therapy, mindfulness, existential psychotherapy, narrative therapy, liberation psychology, brainspotting, and relational psychoanalysis. She primarily works with female identifying adults who are wanting to rediscover their identity and increase their own sense of empowerment. Often, Sara’s clients are at a crossroad brought on by suffering. Sara specializes in working with therapists, physicians, and pastors.

Sara works from an existential-positive psychology framework that is trauma- and attachment-focused, and utilizes somatic based healing through Brainspotting. Sara won the 2020 Social Justice Award given by the City of Holland for her work in helping to pass the city’s first Non-Discrimination Ordinance.

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email: sara@theflourishingco.org

Fees & Insurances Accepted

  • $175, session

  • Blue Cross Blue Shield

  • HSA Card Payments

  • Out of Pocket, Private Pay

  • Out of Network