Huntsville, Ontario, Canada
Sara Moore MACP, RP Jungian Analyst (Advanced Candidate)
Sara Moore MACP, RP Jungian Analyst (Advanced Candidate)
Explore. Grow. Become.
About Sara
Having lived in communities ranging from vibrant urban centres to a remote Northern Ontario town, I bring a deep appreciation for the diverse experiences and life stories that shape each person. I now call Muskoka home, where I have worked as a Registered Psychotherapist in both private practice and community-based mental health.
As an Advanced Jungian Analyst Candidate with the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts, I am dedicated to helping adults develop deeper self-understanding and navigate life's challenges with greater awareness and resilience. I have experience supporting individuals experiencing trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties, offering a thoughtful and compassionate space for healing and growth.
My approach is grounded in Jungian Analysis and informed by an integrative understanding of the mind, body, and spirit. As a trained Spiritual Director, I also welcome the opportunity to incorporate spiritual exploration into our work together when it aligns with your values and goals. Whether you are seeking relief from emotional distress, navigating a life transition, or longing for a deeper connection with yourself, I strive to provide a safe, collaborative, and reflective space where meaningful and lasting change can unfold.
My Approach
Compassion
Compassion is one of the most powerful pathways to healing. While many of us readily extend kindness and understanding to others, offering that same compassion to ourselves can be far more challenging. Yet it is through meeting our own pain with curiosity, acceptance, and self-compassion that lasting healing and transformation become possible. Cultivating a compassionate relationship with ourselves provides a foundation for greater freedom, resilience, and personal growth, allowing us to move through life's challenges with increased authenticity and wholeness.
Curiosity
Pain is often accompanied by emotions such as shame, guilt, anger, anxiety, and sadness. Turning toward these difficult thoughts and feelings can be challenging, and it is natural to want to avoid what feels painful or overwhelming. Yet avoidance often prolongs our distress and can keep unhelpful patterns in place.
By cultivating an attitude of openness and compassionate curiosity toward our experiences, we create space for reflection, insight, and healing. In therapy, this process can support greater self-understanding, emotional resilience, and a deeper sense of self-mastery.
Experimentation
We are all creatures of habit. Over time, familiar ways of thinking, feeling, and responding can become deeply ingrained, even when they no longer serve us. Meaningful change often begins with a willingness to approach ourselves with curiosity, openness, and a spirit of exploration.
Therapy offers a space to experiment with new perspectives and ways of being. Together, we can gently explore different responses, discover what feels authentic and effective, and learn from the process without fear of failure. If one approach is not helpful, we can adjust, try something new, or return to what feels most supportive. Growth is rarely linear, and each step offers an opportunity for greater insight, resilience, and self-discovery.
Therapeutic Modalities
Jungian ANalysis
Jungian Analysis is a depth-oriented form of psychotherapy that supports individuals on their unique journey toward greater self-understanding, healing, and wholeness. Grounded in the work of Carl Jung, it explores the dynamic relationship between the conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche, recognizing that lasting transformation arises through their integration.
In addition to exploring life experiences and relationships, Jungian Analysis may draw upon dreams, bodily sensations and symptoms, imagination, creative expression, myths, symbols, and fantasies as pathways to understanding the unconscious. Together, these experiences can reveal deeper patterns, illuminate inner conflicts, and uncover untapped strengths and potential. As unconscious material becomes integrated into conscious awareness, individuals often experience greater balance, authenticity, resilience, and a deeper sense of meaning and purpose in their lives.
Somatic therapy
Somatic Therapy is a body-centred approach that recognizes the profound connection between the mind and body in the healing process. Our thoughts, emotions, and life experiences are often reflected not only in our minds but also in our bodies, where stress and trauma can be held as physical tension, discomfort, or other sensations.
Through mindful awareness of the body, breath, gentle movement, and guided imagery, Somatic Therapy helps individuals explore and respond to these physical experiences with curiosity and compassion. By developing greater awareness of the body's wisdom, clients can gradually release patterns of tension, strengthen emotional regulation, and cultivate a deeper sense of balance, resilience, and well-being.
Cognitive Behavioural therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based approach that helps individuals understand the relationship between their thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. By identifying patterns that contribute to emotional distress, CBT offers practical strategies to develop healthier ways of thinking, responding, and coping with life's challenges. Together, we work to build skills that foster resilience and support meaningful change, helping to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, insomnia, perfectionism, stress, and other concerns.
cognitive processing therapy
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a specialized, evidence-based treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Trauma can profoundly shape the way we view ourselves, others, and the world. CPT provides a safe and structured framework for exploring the impact of traumatic experiences, helping individuals process and re-evaluate beliefs that may have developed in the aftermath of trauma. As these beliefs are examined and integrated, many people experience a reduction in PTSD symptoms, greater emotional freedom, and an increased capacity to move forward with renewed confidence and hope.
Contact
Phone: 705-571-6559
39 Kendra Crescent, Huntsville, Ontario P1H 2M5, Canada
