Are you sick of trying to hold it all together?
Psychotherapy for people navigating cancer, genetic risk, and high-stakes medical decisions in California.
Are you the kind of person that everyone thinks has it all together, but your recent diagnosis has you feeling like everything’s falling apart?
This might be you:
You have a full life, real authority, and real stakes—and the impact doesn’t end when treatment does.
Maybe you’re in the thick of decisions. Maybe you powered through treatment and did what had to be done. And now, with the urgency gone, you’re noticing the ways your body, priorities, and sense of self have changed. This is the part people don’t warn you about—the need to integrate, not just survive.
You’re a parent, navigating genetic risk inside a fracturing family system
Maybe as a parent, your genetic test result or cancer diagnosis didn’t just affect you—it activated your entire family system. You’re used to being the steady one. The caretaker. The translator.And yet the medical timeline is moving, and you can’t keep carrying everyone else’s emotional load.
You’re queer or gender-diverse, navigating medical care that doesn’t always see or protect you.
If you’re navigating a medical diagnosis that suddenly makes your body, identity, or fertility feel public, you need a safe place to claim your own experience outside of cis-heteronormative narratives. I’ve got you.
Hi, I’m Sara Champie, LCSW.
I work with people who want more than coping — they want to feel alive again and make sense of what they’ve inherited, not just endured. Much of my work is with people carrying genetic mutations, navigating cancer, or living inside the constant decision-making, uncertainty, and grief that comes with hereditary risk.
You didn’t choose this. And you don’t have to be inspirational, grateful, or “good” about it here. This is a space where you can say the unpopular things, step out of people-pleasing, and set down the shame — without being told what you should do next.
How I help
Individual Support
For California-based clients seeking one-on-one support. Therapy with me is a space to work gently and deeply with the emotional, somatic, and relational impact of trauma and long-term stress. Together, we explore how survival patterns, anxiety, and grief live in the body — and how to rebuild a sense of steadiness, agency, and connection.
Group Programs
An intimate space to connect with others who want to do the deep dive—who want to explore their process, not just their outcomes. With weekly topics, these groups offer community, shared understanding, and guided support for the emotional, relational, and generational challenges of carrying hereditary cancer risk.
Podcast
Conversations about navigating hereditary cancer risk. Join us to talk about life between the scans, and how finding out you have a genetic mutation can be a portal to emotional, relational and intergenerational healing.
