Helping Women and Teens Find Their Way To Live A Healthy, Elevated Life Away From Addictions and Trauma Through Positive Change and Choices

Take this journey, and you will find a new passion for living your best life filled with wellness, meaning, and character

You Are Worth It!

Recover your Authentic Self
Realize your Gifts and Talents
Rejoice in the new life you are creating

I’m Sandra Starch, Ph.D., psychologist, professional life coach, and trauma and addiction specialist. I coach, counsel, and support women like you make better choices so you can align your life with your values, career, and relationships.

Have you:
• Felt stuck and can’t find what is keeping you from moving forward
• Questioned your patterns of dependency or how you end up in toxic relationships
• Tried just about everything to overcome substance overuse
• Lived and keep living with unresolved trauma and feel you are trapped in a no-win situation
• Decided to look for a personalized counseling, education, and coaching program to guide you in resolving your conflicts and fears
• Known you don’t have the answers, but you’re determined to stop living with unhappiness and uncertainty once and for all

As women, we think we should know how to solve our problems, have the answers about addictions, and bridge the gap between where we are and where we want to be.

When we can’t, we think something might be wrong with us.

Make Your Decision to Move On!

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I get it. I’ve been there, too.

I’m Sandra Starch, Ph.D., psychologist, clinical trauma and addiction specialist, and professional life coach. I guide and empower women like you to make better choices so you can align your life with your values, career, and relationships. You will uncover how to live  your life with integrity,  wellness, and free from the bonds of addictive behaviors.

I bring an empathetic and heartfelt professional approach forged by my psychology education, my ICF-certified coaching tools and techniques, and my personal experiences and resiliency.

I believe it’s not about increasing willpower but finding cognitive, behavioral, and spiritual solutions for self-discovery. I do not diagnose mental health illnesses, nor do I provide traditional  therapy. With Coaching, counseling, and support, I will help you will find the right motivation, mindset, and confidence to set your journey towards finding peace with the past and living in an authentic present.

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Choosing Wellness

Living healthy and with physical and emotional wellness can be reached by identifying obstacles holding you back from reaching your goals and having a fulfilling life. With supportive guidance, you can develop strategies to overcome barriers, break past habits or patterns, and unlock your sources of clarity and joy. With Authentic Wellness and Recovery, you will be guided to make the most of your strengths, unique skills, and gifts to attain greater contentment in your day-to-day life.

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Codependency

Codependency results from dysfunctional relationships with others. People who struggle with codependency often find it difficult to maintain healthy connections and are sometimes referred to as having “relationship addictions.” Codependency can be linked to substance abusing environments. It can also develop when communication is lacking in relationships, such as avoiding discussion of problems, suppressing issues, ignoring necessary interactions, or when a fear of a response blocks healthy interactions. This can lead to detachment and loss of your own identity. Authentic Wellness and Recovery can provide coaching, education, and support to eliminate codependent patterns and restore your relationships.

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Overcoming Addiction

Addiction is a treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among brain circuits, genetics, the environment, and an individual’s life experiences. Addiction is not planned, and no one wants to live with addictive, compulsive struggles that produce harmful and demoralizing consequences. Addictions go beyond drugs and alcohol; process addictions such as food binging, sex, shopping, gambling, internet, work, or exercise also exist. Authentic Wellness and Recovery will not only address addictive behaviors but also why there is pain that gives strength to the addiction. You will be coached to build a bridge from where you are now In life to where you want to be, free from the bondage of addiction.

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Trauma

Trauma can result from a shocking, adverse event (abuse, assault, injury, disaster, violence, and war), and also from emotional neglect, an unstable or aggressive environment, relationships lacking fulfillment, and racial and intergenerational conflict. In other words, trauma can be any experience that overwhelms your nervous system and ability to cope. Authentic Wellness and Recovery applies trauma informative care methods to seek the origins and elements of your trauma reactions. You will learn how to repair the moral injuries from your soul-scarring events.

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Schedule a Free One-To-One 20-Minute Consultation

Investing in YOUR LIFE can be priceless! If you’re ready to start your positive journey and gain a passion for living your best life, schedule your free one-on-one consultation to discuss your current mental and/or physical health challenges, history, and desired goals.

Take the first step on your healing journey today
I am ready to make that decision and move on!