Sasha Saint-Johnson, LLMFT
Sasha Saint-Johnson, a Marriage and Family Therapist, is dedicated to helping her clients thrive, focusing primarily on couples and teen girls. She creates a safe, judgment-free space to build trust and facilitate positive change. Using a strengths-based, Solution-Focused approach, Sasha partners with clients to navigate the present while focusing on future possibilities.
Sasha empowers clients to set meaningful goals, validates their emotions with empathy, and helps uncover their inner strengths and resiliency, while honoring cultural, religious, and spiritual values. Her ability to teach effective communication is a key strength, helping clients gain organizational skills, motivation, and self-reliance. An action-oriented therapist, Sasha combines encouragement, laughter, and real-world coping skills to support her clients in shifting perspectives, understanding what’s within their control, learning Mindfulness skills and tackling challenges with a determined, positive mindset.
For LGBTQA+ Folks:
Sasha is LGBTQA+ Safe Zone certified and deeply committed to creating an inclusive and affirming space for all who enter the therapeutic room.
For Couples:
Sasha Saint-Johnson helps couples strengthen their connection, improve communication, rebuild trust, and rekindle intimacy. She creates a space where both partners feel heard, respected, supported, and loved, helping to foster balance and understanding. Through a Solution-Focused approach and Gottman Method techniques, Sasha guides couples in organizing their lives together, fairly sharing responsibilities, and building on positive interactions.
She helps couples break unhealthy patterns, replacing them with speaking each other’s love languages, using active listening, and eliminating blame. Sasha supports couples in navigating challenges such as infidelity, parenting, extended family dynamics, loss, medical issues, and stressful life transitions. By committing to consistent positive effort, couples will experience the reward of restored hope and deeper connection.
Currently working on completing specialized training in the Gottman Method, Sasha blends this research-based approach with her use of the Solution-Focused model and mindfulness techniques to guide couples through transformative changes.
For Teen Girls:
When Sasha works with teen girls, they often feel that she is right at their level, creating a space where they can be open and honest without feeling misunderstood. Sasha understands the unique challenges teens face and tailors her approach to meet their individual needs. Teens find therapy with Sasha Saint-Johnson to be a transformative and positive experience, sometimes fun, and offering relief to have someone who is dedicated just to them. With Sasha's support, therapy becomes an amazing experience where they can explore their thoughts, feelings, and goals in a safe, judgment-free space. Sasha empowers teens to navigate their challenges, build confidence, and discover their inner strength, all while fostering a sense of hope and possibility for the future.
Sasha takes a flexible, individualized approach to working with teens, using methods that resonate with each client. Therapy may incorporate open discussions, music, movement, imagining, art, guided breathing, or imagery—tools chosen specifically to meet the teen's needs, often utilizing their interests as a way to connect. By focusing on reducing anxiety, working on coping mechanisms, and improving emotional regulation, Sasha helps teens build the skills they need to self-advocate, communicate effectively, and join in their family system with greater harmony, while feeling heard. This adaptability allows teens to engage in therapy in a way that feels comforting, refreshing and empowering.
*For parents and caregivers, Sasha offers a way that not only helps teens navigate their challenges but also fosters a more positive and harmonious family dynamic. By empowering teens with the tools to manage emotions, communicate clearly, and build self-confidence, Sasha helps them grow into more self-reliant, emotionally aware individuals. Together, both teens and their families can experience lasting, positive change.
Sasha’s Approach:
Sasha works from the Solution-Focused Model to help clients identify their strengths, set goals, and use practical moves toward creating meaningful, dynamic, positive, and sustainable changes. Joining together, therapist and client(s) focus on imagining what can be and start walking that path together, one step at a time, one task at a time. The integration of Mindfulness techniques offers coping skills and positive mindset engagement. Her approach assists clients in stopping the past from dictating their future with conviction, resolution, healing, and positivity... with a goal of moving from Once Upon a Time to Happily Ever After.