Our team of leaders.

Sarah Carter, LMHC, RDT (she, her, hers) is a co-developer of Rescripted and is member of the Rescripted Leadership Team. After obtaining a BA in Theatre Arts from Boston College, Sarah moved to Chicago where she trained at the famed improv theatre, The Second City, and toured with an educational theatre troupe across high schools in the Chicago suburbs. Sarah later went on to receive an MA in Mental Health Counseling and Expressive Therapies from Lesley University with a specialization in Drama Therapy. In addition to being an LMHC, Sarah is a Registered Drama Therapist (RDT) with the North American Drama Therapy Association. She is trained in the ARC (Attachment, Self Regulation, and Competency) Framework and SMART (Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment) and has completed PESI’s intensive training course in DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy). Over the past 10 years of her clinical career, Sarah has worked in inpatient, outpatient and residential psychiatric settings specializing in treatment of youth and adults with complex trauma through arts-based and trauma-informed interventions. More recently, Sarah coordinated the therapeutic group program for Boston Children's Hospital's Inpatient Psychiatry Service. Currently, Sarah works in private practice and provides group therapy on McLean Hospital’s Short Term Unit. 

Sasha Garfunkel Corrado, LICSW (she/her/hers) is a co-developer of Rescripted and is member of the Rescripted Leadership Team. Sasha received her Masters in Social Work from Simmons Graduate School of Social Work. Over the past 12 years, Sasha has become experienced in working with clients across their lifespan to help them gain skills to navigate symptoms of depression, anxiety, trauma, and challenges with executive functioning and social skills. She has an in-depth understanding of working with children and adults across multiple treatment modalities and levels of care including residential treatment, intensive home-based family therapy, and outpatient therapy. Sasha’s practice integrates her experience in the ARC (Attachment, Self Regulation, and Competency) Framework, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and SMART (Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment). Sasha’s work is governed by a belief in the innate resiliency of people. Sasha currently works as an outpatient clinician at an eating disorder program and in private practice.  

Valerie Krpata, LICSW (she/her/hers) is a co-developer of Rescripted and is member of the Rescripted Leadership Team. Valerie received her master’s degree in social work from Simmons College. Throughout her clinical career, she has gained extensive experience working with the latency, adolescent and transitional age youth within congregate care settings who have experienced complex trauma. Valerie is also a trainer in the ARC (Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency) framework and believes in the healing power of a caring and attuned community. She has over 10 years of experience providing, collaborating and/or training on creative therapeutic approaches, including improv theater, motivational interviewing, sensory motor arousal regulation treatment (SMART), adolescent community reinforcement, and the therapeutic benefits of therapy dogs.

Krystal Pérez is a Puerto Rican sociologist passionate about eradicating gender based violence and understanding how traumatic experiences affect people's physical, emotional and social processes. With 15 years’ experience facilitating supporting groups of gender based violence victims she dedicated her graduate studies to find ways to improve care spaces for immigrant women in Puerto Rico and Spain, where she completed her Master's degree in Communication for Social Change and Development. In turn, she did her first Yoga TT in 2014 and went to India to deepen the practice. She is the Co-founder of “Arme: Narrativa Psico-corporal “ a program who gives psychotherapy and trauma sensitive yoga services for trauma survivors to Spanish speaking people in Latin America since 2017. She is a clinical intern for family and children therapy in “Gateway Mountain Center” In California. 

Keri Sawyer, has over a decade of experience facilitating movement and breath, embodiment, and trauma informed practices. She is a seasoned speaker and facilitator who has trained thousands of people as an experienced 500 hour yoga teacher and licensed Trainer with the Center for Trauma and Embodiment.
 
Keri provides Trauma Sensitive yoga to trauma survivors of all ages, facilitates trainings for yoga teachers and healthcare workers, and provides research-based information and trauma-informed treatment practices to the therapeutic world. She oversees the implementation of of trauma informed practices into therapeutic models in clinical and residential treatment programs across the country along with agency trainings and regular consultation for mental health clinicians, therapists, nurses, massage therapists, yoga teachers and more. Her passion is to provide an opportunity for survivors of trauma to have an authentic experience with a safe and predictable felt sense of their body along with spreading awareness of trauma-informed practices. 
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Keri is the owner of Openview yoga, Somatic Director at the Developmental Trauma Training Institute and The Trainer Liaison for the Center for Trauma and Embodiment where she supports, builds community and communicates with the training team. Keri is also the director of training for the Namapsa foundations non profit group that brings yoga into areas of Central Oregon that need it most. Keri specializes in training and facilitating Trauma Sensitive Yoga, yoga for mental health and therapeutic yoga. She also coaches new and advanced yoga teachers in deepening their personal practice and exploring teaching practices, workshops and business.

Originally from Greenville, Mississippi, Candace is a NASM - certified fitness coach, consent & harm reduction educator, and founder of the Center for Body Autonomy. Blending her background in social justice and wellness, her work specializes in creating safe, healthy, and inclusive spaces for all bodies to thrive. Her signature programs, JahRation Nation Dance Fitness and Fortify & Flex help teach individuals how to tap into the knowledge within their bodies by engaging in proactive self-care, joyful movement, and strength-based training. They were the co-host of the Decolonizing Fitness podcast, a social justice-conscious platform redefining fitness by unpacking mainstream toxic fitness culture.

Candace is also a TedX speaker & award-winning activist and performance artist. She is a graduate of the National Organization of Victim Advocates’ Academy and has organized national campaigns to examine the impact of racial and gender-based oppression, sexual violence, and mass incarceration. Her latest campaign, #ConsentConscious, advocates for more comprehensive, trauma-informed consent education to support our overall wellness and pleasure. Throughout the entirety of their work, Candace has used movement-based healing practices to support individuals and organizations with a particular focus on Black communities, Queer & Trans individuals, and people with disabilities. They are a self-proclaimed "Body-Enthusiast" and deeply committed to imagining what liberation can feel like in our bodies.

Mariah Rooney is weight lifter and a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in treating the complex challenges that arise as a result of traumatic stress, attachment trauma, intergenerational trauma, and dissociation in children and adults. She is also an adjunct professor in the graduate School of Social Work at Winona State University, and a trauma-informed care consultant who supports systems change and capacity building efforts in systems of all sizes and types. As a previous Fellow at the Trauma Center at JRI she received extensive training in trauma and supported various project and research efforts.

Additionally, Mariah is a movement practitioner and coach with extensive training in trauma-sensitive and culturally-informed yoga and meditation practices through Warriors at Ease, Prison Yoga Project, Insight Prison Project, Mind Body Solutions, and Trauma Sensitive Yoga. Her writing and research has explored posttraumatic outcomes among combat veterans with histories of interpersonal violence, trauma sensitive education, as well as outcomes among traumatized youth in an outpatient setting using a sensory-based intervention. You can see her writing in Becoming a Student of Your Students: Trauma-Informed, Culturally Relevant Practices for Physical Education Teachers; Bulletproofing the Psyche and in American Military Life in the 21st Century: Social, Cultural, Economic Issues and Trends.