Sarah Benamer

Sarah Benamer (UKCP, MBACP, SEP) is a relational Attachment Based Psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor who works with individuals and couples. She originally qualified as a psychotherapist at The Bowlby Centre and has subsequently trained as a psychosexual and couples therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Prior to being a psychotherapist Sarah was a community worker, advocating for those in crisis within the NHS psychiatric system, and supporting individuals living with chronic pain, long-term illness and severe physical disabilities. In addition to therapeutic trainings she has an MA in Applied Anthropology, a grounding that informs her ‘participant observer’ approach to clinical practice. 

Sarah has a particular interest in the many roles of the body in our emotional and relational worlds. In her clinical and written work she seeks to integrate psychoanalytic and attachment understandings with an appreciation of individual body narrative. Sarah is deeply committed to the accessibility of therapy and theory that is relevant in the clients’ world. 

Publications: 

‘Telling Stories’ Attachment Based Approaches to the Treatment of Psychosis (Ed) 

Trauma and Attachment (Edited with Kate White) 

Killing Me Softly; A Relational Understanding of Attachment to Pain in ATTACHMENT Journal 

In Press: ‘Embodied Intimacies’ a clinical chapter in a book edited by Brett Kahr to be published later this year in honour of Susie Orbach.