https://www.talkwithdrsarah.com/media daily 0.75 2026-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e5b376bdf4a447d5a30fb8/1773519964676-DW3SXBLCNJF4FFJQS5RM/dr-sarah-williams-media-podcast-studio-couch-microphones.jpg.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e5b376bdf4a447d5a30fb8/323b0004-a448-4514-958b-b6e8b485eacb/1000021349.jpg https://www.talkwithdrsarah.com/media/religion-narcissism-religious-trauma-medium monthly 0.5 2026-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e5b376bdf4a447d5a30fb8/a6e65686-13c0-453e-8d32-5a35af4901ca/pexels-rdne-8674215.jpg In the Media - What I Shared with Medium About Why Religion Attracts Narcissists - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e5b376bdf4a447d5a30fb8/861fe2c4-c6b4-4b58-b784-989652c5a5b2/Why+Religion+Attracts+Narcissists++by+Maria+Cassano++Bitchy++Medium.png In the Media - What I Shared with Medium About Why Religion Attracts Narcissists - Make it stand out Who This Work Is For I specialize in identity, faith, and the psychological complexity of navigating both. If you are processing harm that happened within a religious context, trying to understand your relationship to faith after a painful experience, or carrying the weight of what it cost you to leave, this is territory I am trained and honored to work in. Read the full article on Medium →Why Religion Attracts Narcissists — Maria Cassano, Bitchy/Medium If what I described resonates with what you are navigating, visit my Identity, Faith & Purpose page or schedule a consultation to start a conversation. https://www.talkwithdrsarah.com/media/what-i-shared-on-wtkr-about-ai-seasonal-depression monthly 0.5 2026-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e5b376bdf4a447d5a30fb8/1773543547042-6KDRBZU7QJ470GMGA4TU/dr-sarah-williams-wtkr-news-ai-seasonal-depression-interview.jpg.jpg In the Media - What I Shared on WTKR News About AI, Seasonal Depression, and Why Human Connection Still Matters - Make it stand out Last winter, WTKR News 3 reached out to me again — this time to speak about a trend I had been watching with concern: the growing reliance on AI chatbots and wellness apps for mental health support, specifically during the winter months when seasonal depression is most prevalent. The conversation felt timely. More people are turning to AI as a first response to emotional struggle, and while the appeal is understandable, what I see clinically tells a different story about what that habit actually costs. https://www.talkwithdrsarah.com/media/what-i-shared-on-wtkr-about-seasonal-affective-disorder monthly 0.5 2026-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e5b376bdf4a447d5a30fb8/89a36b68-b985-4121-a42c-de9df1135388/dr-sarah-williams-wtkr-news-seasonal-affective-disorder-interview.jpg.jpg In the Media - What I Shared on WTKR News About Seasonal Affective Disorder — & Why Women Are Especially at Risk In the fall of 2022, I had the opportunity to speak with WTKR News 3 in Hampton Roads about Seasonal Affective Disorder — what it actually is, why it affects certain people more than others, and what helps when you are in the middle of it. This is a topic that comes up consistently in my practice during the fall and winter months. What I find is that a lot of people dismiss what they are experiencing as ordinary tiredness or just the weather. The distinction matters, because SAD is a recognized mood disorder that responds well to specific interventions — and ignoring it tends to make it worse. https://www.talkwithdrsarah.com/media/toxic-relationships-childhood-trauma-madamenoire monthly 0.5 2026-05-05 https://www.talkwithdrsarah.com/media/grief-trauma-loss-the-mighty monthly 0.5 2026-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e5b376bdf4a447d5a30fb8/0a44a51a-b369-43e6-836b-28cef04f5a6b/dr-sarah-williams-burnout-therapist.jpg.jpg In the Media - What I Wrote for The Mighty About Grief, Trauma, and Losing My Husband - Make it stand out What I Want People Who Are Grieving to Know The advice I offered at the end of that essay still holds: find a therapist you trust, give yourself time without rushing the process, and find your source of meaning and joy in whatever form that takes. These are not platitudes. 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Researcher Cheryl Woods-Giscombé identified a pattern she called the Superwoman Schema — a constellation of expectations that many Black women internalize: the obligation to present strength at all times, to suppress emotions, to resist vulnerability, to succeed despite barriers, and to prioritize everyone else's care over their own. https://www.talkwithdrsarah.com/blog/strong-one-family-emotional-labor-mental-health monthly 0.5 2026-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e5b376bdf4a447d5a30fb8/1779108063560-HRAHCFW5L6QYR77PCWOH/two-women-cooking-family-emotional-labor-dr-sarah-williams.jpg.jpg Blog - The Mental Health Cost of Being the Strong One in Your Family - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.talkwithdrsarah.com/blog/black-women-job-loss-2026-mental-health monthly 0.5 2026-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e5b376bdf4a447d5a30fb8/5466661e-e89e-4a86-a100-04725fc4f00e/black-woman-desk-laptop-job-loss-mental-health-dr-sarah-williams.jpg.jpg Blog - Black Women Are Losing Jobs at an Alarming Rate - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e5b376bdf4a447d5a30fb8/daf1c66f-79a1-4611-b278-abe352855a58/black-woman-colleagues-workplace-job-loss-mental-health-dr-sarah-williams.jpg.jpg Blog - Black Women Are Losing Jobs at an Alarming Rate - When Your Career Is Part of Your Identity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e5b376bdf4a447d5a30fb8/dd0e4013-a01b-433a-9dd0-950ae7f70b89/black-woman-desk-typing-overhead-career-mental-health-dr-sarah-williams.jpg.jpg Blog - Black Women Are Losing Jobs at an Alarming Rate - I want to name something that tends to get lost in the economic framing of this crisis: the psychological cost of having the structures that recognized your humanity dismantled in real time. 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But for many Black women, they represented something clinically significant: an institutional acknowledgment that the playing field was not level and that specific effort was required to level it. https://www.talkwithdrsarah.com/blog/shreveport-domestic-violence-trauma-mental-health monthly 0.5 2026-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e5b376bdf4a447d5a30fb8/1779107336113-UHBS0KLT6FWONV3HRDSK/louisiana-tree-grief-trauma-mental-health-dr-sarah-williams.jpg.jpg Blog - What the Shreveport Tragedy Reveals About Untreated Trauma in Men - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e5b376bdf4a447d5a30fb8/e6490a2b-2a1a-4229-ae09-464924c4ef2f/black-woman-outside-phone-domestic-violence-trauma-dr-sarah-williams.jpg.jpg Blog - What the Shreveport Tragedy Reveals About Untreated Trauma in Men - Femicide, the killing of women often by intimate partners, is happening repeatedly, in plain sight. And Black women are disproportionately affected. The women who survive these relationships, who leave, who call for help, who spend years navigating the emotional aftermath of intimate partner trauma, deserve a direct, sustained conversation about what this costs psychologically. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68e5b376bdf4a447d5a30fb8/095cc0b2-2968-4c64-98c6-5391ca55ae48/woman-writing-notebook-trauma-healing-dr-sarah-williams.jpg.jpg Blog - What the Shreveport Tragedy Reveals About Untreated Trauma in Men - For the Women Reading This If you are carrying the weight of a relationship where something has felt off for a long time, where your safety has felt uncertain, where the emotional cost of staying has become something you manage quietly, that is worth bringing into a room with someone trained to help you navigate it. You do not have to have experienced physical harm to deserve support. You do not have to be in crisis. 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