Creative Mentorship
Spiritual, emotional, & practical support for creative humans.
“Working with Sarah is like being in a literary salon with a philosopher, a psychologist, an activist, a painter, and a friend all at once.”
~Abigail N. Rosewood, Author
What’s your creative project?
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Identity & personhood
You’re updating your definitions, reclaiming your agency, and listening closely to what your creativity really wants to say.
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Showing up to the page
To write the book. Or the newsletter. Or the poem sequence. Or the graphic novel. Or the proposal. Or the personal essay. Or...
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Healing & unlearning
You’re tired of things getting between you and your creativity, and you want to address the blocks, release the bad advice, and heal your creative wounds.
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Building a new framework
You’re ready to know what your creativity looks & feels like on your own terms, and you’re seeking practices and resources that will accommodate that truth.
Hi, I’m Sarah!
I’m a lifelong writer, autistic human, and ex-social worker turned trauma-informed creative mentor.
I help people like you—neurodivergent folks, creative weirdos, purpose-driven artists, & sensitive souls—move past creative struggles and toward real possibility…
Creative struggles you might be facing
(aka what my clients and I have witnessed)
You struggle to maintain access to the wellspring of creativity inside you.
Old wounds, past discouraging experiences, and/or trauma create blocks that feel insurmountable.
You feel buried by the pressures of productivity, external validation, and other capitalist demands.
You struggle to balance your needs (spoons, pacing, etc.) with your desires and ambitions.
You feel you must constantly re-prove your worth, or that your creativity “doesn’t count.”
“Sarah has helped me build a sacred connection and relationship to my creativity.
Your life will change if you venture down your own journey with her support.”
~Sarah Baldwin, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
What’s possible
(aka client milestones)
Your creativity plays a daily role in your sense of self and your decision-making.
You’re on good terms with your history, which informs—but does not dictate—your work.
You track your progress and goals through authentic, accommodating benchmarks.
You experience inspiration and momentum more consistently, and more often.
Your creative pursuits feel undeniably worthwhile.
Your creativity is an ecosystem.
Let’s care about the whole thing.
How we work together
I usually work with clients in 3 or 6 month containers.
During this time, we dive deep into three main areas:
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From habits to skills to time management, we’ll identify the practices that accommodate your authentic, holistic self.
Whether you’re working on a specific project or just dipping your toes back into your creative waters, we’ll identify clear, actionable steps to move you forward on your unique journey.
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As a trauma-informed and strengths-based practitioner, I know firsthand—both professionally and personally—that creativity touches all of it: our wounds, our gifts, our sensitivities, and our needs.
As such, our work together will honor and attend to the emotional realities that intersect with your creative channel, making space for the full scope of you.
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What role, if any, do ritual & magic play in your creative practices? How do you understand—and articulate—your sense of purpose? How does your connection with the natural world inspire what shows up on the page?
Your creative ecosystem wouldn’t be what it is without these ephemeral, harder-to-account-for aspects of who you are. Let’s make space for the enchantment, too.
1:1 Creative Mentorship
$700 / month. Payment plan options. Sliding scale rates currently available.
Each month includes
Two hour-long mentorship calls
Two standing invitations to share work with me
Asynchronous support via email & voice note
Prompts, book recs, and other invitations personalized to your journey
Let’s step forward together:
The next step is to schedule a free intro call. This “vibe check” helps us make sure working together will be the right fit at the right time:
Client testimonials
Schedule your free intro call:
Who am I?
I’m an Autistic writer: Since the age of 3, I’ve been mesmerized by the physical act of putting words on a page, which helps me see myself more fully in this neurotypical world. I view writing as a combination of magic, discovery, and fortitude of the self.
I love bugs, hiking, game shows, and not drinking alcohol. I love that my sun & moon are both in Taurus. I love having two middle names: Teresa Leonora. I love the desert, the ocean, and I love getting tattoos.
I hold an MA in English, with emphases in poetics and creative writing, and a minor in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.
I believe in borrowing lenses from the social services field, where I spent about 8 years in housing advocacy, youth services, and community mental health. I am both trauma-informed and strengths-based in my work.
I spent a lot of time believing I would never be successful on my own terms, and that I wouldn’t be a real writer until I could check off certain boxes. But it was my own creativity, paired with mentorship, therapy, and other healing modalities, that brought me back to my full self and my real terms.
I trust that writing is always at least a little bit spiritual: you take your imagination, which lives in your body yet isn’t confined to it, and you use it to build and examine your tender self and all your weird, wonderful ideas. What else in life can provide us with medicine and play in such equal amounts? We put words on a page and, over time, come to inhabit our lives differently. Like magic! But also: like choice.