Sarah Merritt

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Sarah earned her Bachelor's degree in psychology from Liberty University in 2015 and joined the Stellher team in 2022 to complete her master’s level internship. She graduated with her master's degree in professional counseling from Liberty in 2023 and has continued providing outpatient services at Stellher while on licensure track to get her LPCC in 2025.

SPECIALTIES / AREAS OF INTEREST: Sarah believes that therapy is a client-centered, collaborative process that looks different from one person to the next. Her goal is to provide a safe space where individuals feel seen and heard and to promote a strong therapeutic alliance to facilitate change. She enjoys working with people of all ages while offering support in several different areas such as trauma, adjustment to new circumstances or life challenges, depression, anxiety, and relationship struggles. She is an Armed Forces veteran and enjoys working with military members and their families. She utilizes several interventions from different therapeutic approaches such as cognitive behavioral (CBT), solution-focused, mindfulness, trauma-informed), but she specializes in Motivational Interviewing. She currently provides services to adults, adolescents, and school-aged children through our outpatient office in Bemidji.

SPECIAL TRAINING: MAP (Managing and Adapting Practice), Motivational Interviewing

PERSONAL INTERESTS: I love spending time with my family from camping and swimming in the summer to sledding and skating in the winter and just relaxing and watching movies in between! My husband and I enjoy riding our motorcycles during riding season, which we both call our “wind therapy,” and we love going on walks with our German Shepherd! I spend my spare time volunteering for youth ministry and AWANA through our church, and I strongly value my faith and relationships.