Background

Sara leverages two decades of experience spanning psychiatry, private practice and organizational psychology. Early in her career she worked in psychiatry and has since 2011 specialized in short-term dynamic psychotherapies, mainly through private practice through contracts with Kris- och Trauma Centrum, Region Skåne, and collaborations with several other large clinics in Sweden including INM Psykiatrisk Mottagning. Additionally, Sara is experienced in organizational psychology, with primary focus on personality assessment and development. She was employed by PAT Management from 2007 (now Alumni Global), and proceeded as a consultant for the firm through Ekenstierna Psykologkonsult. Clients included companies like Skanska AB and Swedbank.

Education

Sara was awarded a Licentiate in Psychology (LPsy)^* in 2009. She studied at Lund University in Sweden (2002-2007), was a visiting student at University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada (2003, 2006), completed a one-year fellowship (PTP) in organizational psychology (2008), followed by an additional fellowship year in clinical psychology (2009). Prior to that she studied Gender Science at Malmo University (1999). Additionally, Sara has a PhD in philosophy and psychotherapy from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, where she was awarded a 3,5 year Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship (2021) for a study at the nexus of psychodynamic therapy, existential philosophy, and metaphysics. Sara has undertaken continuing education and masterclasses in short-term psychotherapy models in USA, UK, and Denmark. She also has training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) where RFT (Relational Frame Theory) grounds her INDACT and PROACT professional development programs, offered as experiential workshops since 2010. She also facilitates educational-experiential hybrid workshops, recently in collaboration with Existential-Humanistic Institute, USA (co-sponsors: KU Leuven and Instituto Europeo de Psicoterapia Humanista y Existencial) (2023) and Houston Psychoanalytic Society, USA (2025).

^*Professional title used in EU countries, equivalent of PsyD in the United States.

Engagement

Sara runs the new podcast Bohmian Dialogues, which explores creative forms of being and how to manifest new shared realities. She was a columnist at the Swedish professional magazine Psykologtidningen. Her work is also published in Journal of Consciousness Studies, Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Blog of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA), and Blog of American Philosophical Association (APA). Sara is a frequent speaker on the international arena. She is a member of multiple scientific- and professional communities including: the Society for Mind-Matter Research; Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS); The Scientific and Medical Network; American Philosophical Association (APA); Sveriges Psykologförbund; American Psychological Association (APA), including Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (SPPP); Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology; Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (and other APA divisions).