Hi, my name is Sarah/Sarah J (she/her), and I am a social worker, research and administrative assistant, resource navigator, and creative. I aim to offer accessible support services to care-seekers, communities, and practitioners. My services are intended to be practical, educational, and supplemental, with the purpose to increase access, discover options, make connections, empower choice, and illuminate your inherent worth, dignity, and strengths and those of your community.
Background:
I am a longtime care-worker with nearly twenty years of experience in mental health, crisis, public health disasters, and community care. I primarily work with people and communities who have been historically and presently sociopolitically targeted, oppressed, and intentionally under-resourced. I completed social work training (MSW, 2024) to deepen and expand my ability to offer care (I am not currently a licensed clinical social worker/therapist; I do not offer psychotherapy).
Sociocultural Identities and Location:
I am a disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, White and mixed race Arab cishet woman in my late 30s. I am very light skinned and White-presenting, and generally assimilated as a third generation US citizen, who grew up middle class. As an adult, I am cash and wealth poor. I live through complex trauma, notably from the Western medical model, mental health industrial complex, white supremacy culture, and coloniality. At the same time, I benefit from these systems with unearned privilege and less intersectional harm than other individuals and groups with sociopolitically targeted, oppressed, racialized, and marginalized identities.
My background has steered me to decenter white supremacy culture and coloniality, and uplift the lived experiences of those I collaborate with.
[Image 1/2 description: Studio portrait of Sarah, a fat, light-skinned White-presenting mixed race Arab and White ciswoman with long brown curly hair, seated on a brown bench with her best dog pal-- a black and white piebald husky-pittie mix with upright pointy ears-- lying at her feet; both are smiling at the camera; Sarah is wearing a black shirt, black pants, and forest green sweater; Image 2/2 description: Business card in greyscale featuring a hand extending a single wild rose; black text on light grey background reads: Sarah B. Joseph, MSW, Care-Seeker & Practitioner Support]
