About Sarah

  • Licensed Therapist (LCSW)

  • Registered Yoga Instructor

  • Trauma Informed Embodiment Coach

  • Embodied Paradise Method Founder

  • Certified Brainspotting Practitioner

  • Mental Health Consultant

  • Psychology Educator

  • Girls & Women's Group Facilitator

I’m Sarah Slater Snyder

Aloha!

I am a former high school Psychology Teacher and Counselor, Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200 Hour Certification), Certified Brainspotting practitioner, and Embodiment Coach in Hawaii. In these roles, I have over twenty years of experience teaching adolescents, pre-adolescents, and young adults how to tune into their mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual body to live from a place of truth, joy, intention, and purpose.

As a lifelong learner, educator, and counselor, I have always been fascinated with the mind-body-spirit connection. This led me to earn my BA in Exercise and Sport Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003 and my Masters in Social Work from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2007.

My deeply rooted belief is that each person has the potential to be an active empowered participant in their journey of learning, growth, and self-discovery. 

For over a decade I worked in private and public schools, creating safe, structured spaces for students to build upon their intellectual, psychosocial, physical, spiritual, and moral awareness. In my roles as a psychosocial counselor, teacher, department chair, and student advocate, I combined my loves of counseling, teaching, and outdoor education while compassionately guiding students through their learning and personal growth journeys. During this time, I taught a variety of social, emotional, and ethical learning classes, which allowed me to share my love of positive psychology, mindfulness, and neuroscience. I also created and taught a variety of girls groups/classes, which empowered teenage girls to build healthy relationships with peers, while increasing their own self-awareness, self-esteem, and self-efficacy. 

As I grew more interested in the connection between mind, body, and spirit, I completed my 200-hour certification as a Registered Yoga Teacher from Aloha Yoga Kula in 2012. This professional development allowed me to nurture a culture of mind-body-spirit balance within myself and my communities. Within my school community, I taught a variety of student, faculty, and alumni yoga and meditation classes, and in the larger community, I developed Yoga Circle, a series of yoga classes tailored specifically for adolescent and preadolescent girls. These classes allowed me to unite my love of group counseling and yoga, while empowering teenage girls how to live more authentically through yoga, meditation, breathing, and self-reflection. 

I am expanding my reach to serve women on a larger global scale.

In 2018, I transitioned from school counselor and yoga instructor to Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in private practice at Honolulu Psychology Collective. I continue to serve in this role as a therapist in private practice, and I am now expanding my reach to serve women on a larger global scale as an Embodiment Coach through my Abounding Women’s Circles.

In 2021, I founded the Women’s Wellness Circle community on Facebook and my Signature Group Program, The Abounding Woman Program, to support women of all ages through virtual sisterhood circles that teach women how to neuro hack their brain and body for elite embodiment, health, and balance so they can create their own internal paradise.

In early 2024, I earned my certification in Brainspotting, which is a cutting-edge, somatic modality that uses focused mindfulness to facilitate emotional healing and expansion through targeting the unconscious mind and body. I am blown away by the power of this neuroscience meets intuition technique that facilitates rapid healing from the bottom up (body to brain) rather than top down (brain to body). Brainspotting is an integral component of my Embodied Paradise Method, as it allows clients to create safety in body and mind through quickly transforming emotional dysregulation into regulation and facilitating emotional expansion into states of joy, gratitude, and self-compassion within 1-3 sessions. Learn more about brainspotting here.

Additionally in 2024, I transformed my signature group program into the Malama Membership Circle in order to sustainably serve more ambitious women so they can malama (nurture/care for) and come back home to themselves through monthly bundles of on-demand, interactive trainings, monthly group coaching calls, quarterly 1:1 brainspotting sessions, daily messaging support, and more.

My vision for my coaching practice is to create safe sacred abounding circles, both online and in person, for girls and women to live more authentically in their truth, to step into their power, and to embrace their connection to self and community.

While learning has become a path for my own awakening, I believe that the discovery of self-knowledge - what lies within - is one of the greatest lessons we can learn.