Sara Tuke Carr, MA, LPC, LCPC - Director of Supervision

 

240-997-2442
sara@weaverandassociates.net

Sara Tuke Carr has practiced therapy since 2006 and is a Licensed Professional Counselor in both Virginia and Maryland. Along with her therapy and supervision practice, she provides workshops and trainings to mental health professionals, and school personnel. Sara has co-led therapeutic classes such as MindUp and the Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills class.

Sara’s therapeutic interests include working with adolescents and adults, as well as parents to improve understanding and relationships. Her therapeutic specialities include anxiety, attention/focus difficulties, depression, and improving family communication and strategizing. Sara believes that clients and families are best served in a client-centered approach, drawing from the practices of cognitive behavioral therapy and mentalization.

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PRIVATE SERVICES OFFERED

  • Psychotherapy with children, adolescents and families
  • Psychotherapy with young adults
  • Group therapy with children and adolescents
  • Clinical Supervision for licensure
  • Parenting strategies
  • Collateral contacts with psychiatric, medical, school and other professionals to coordinate treatment
  • Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the Commonwealth of Virginia
  • Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in the State of Maryland

EDUCATION

Master of Arts, Rehabilitation Counseling (2006), University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Bachelor of Arts, Psychology (2004), Denison University, Granville, Ohio

PSYCHOTHERAPY TREATMENT SPECIALTIES

  • ADHD and motivational problems
  • Anxiety disorders
  • Attachment issues
  • Behavior problems, including risk-taking, oppositional, defiant, explosive, and learning/behavioral school issues
  • Building healthy relationships and friendships
  • Child-centered play therapy and filial therapy
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Family issues such as building trust, communication, and handling stressors
  • Filial therapy
  • Identity issues
  • Mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder
  • Motivation and focus
  • Parental relationship enhancement and communication-building techniques
  • Recovering from grief and trauma
  • Self-esteem and body image
  • Self-harming behaviors and suicidal ideation
  • Theraplay and building healthy attachment relationships

TRAININGS GIVEN

  • Developing and Deepening Skills in Child Centered Play Therapy (2 day training)
  • Sandtray Basics (workshop)
  • Using DBT: Affect regulation and adolescents (workshop)
  • Mindfulness and the Brain (1 day training)
  • Mindfulness for the Real World (school talk)

CONTINUING EDUCATION

  • Mentalization-Based Skills for Adolescents & Young Adults (MBT-A) and regular consultation with Maria Svernel, Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London UK
  • Good Psychiatric Management for Adolescents (GPM-A) with Dr. Lois Choi-Kain, McLean Hospital
  • Teaching Positive Parenting, Julianne Reilly
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) training and regular consultation with Miranda Morris, True North, Bethesda, Maryland
  • Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) Training, Dr. Eli Lebowitz, Yale University, Child Study Center
  • Integrating ERP with ACT, Dr. Lisa Coyne, New England Center for OCD and Anxiety
  • Is This Autism? Dr. Donna Henderson, Stixruid Group, Silver Spring, Maryland
  • Working with Autistic Young People, Jennifer Glacel, Seven Corners Psychotherapy, Virginia
  • Gender Diverse Youth, Heather Kirby, Kirby Creative Clinical Solutions, Virginia
  • CBT with Children and Adolescents, The Beck Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) with Dr. Cathy Moonshine: DBT Clinician Training
  • Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) Miami, Florida
  • Child Centered Play Therapy (CCPT), Filial Family Therapy, Relationship Enhancement Therapy, through the National Institute of Relational Enhancement, Bethesda, Maryland
  • Sand Tray Therapy, Center for Culture and Sand Play, College Park, Maryland
  • Theraplay, Chicago, Illinois
 
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