Sarah Carlan holds a coaching certification from Brown University School of Professional Development, a Master’s in Social Work from Smith College School for Social Work, and a BA in Neuroscience and Animal Behavior from Mount Holyoke College. She has more than 15 years of experience as a therapist, leadership coach, and group facilitator. In addition, she is trained in Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead methodology.

As a consultant and leadership coach, she has worked with public schools, non-profits, and medical institutions to help them understand their pain points, reflect on the necessary changes, and build and execute a comprehensive plan to address that change.  When she is not working as a coach she is working on her small farm in Western MA and parenting her two young adult children.

Sarah is passionate about the work of Treehouse Foundation because communities of safe adults are the proven solution to helping children heal.