About Us
​Fruitful Hearth Services LLC is a child life private practice offering coping support to children and families as they navigate traumatic events, challenging circumstances, illness, loss, and life changes. We specialize in early childhood, emotional & behavioral health, medical anxiety, trauma, loss, and life changes.
We take a whole-family approach, incorporating play-based coping, hands-on skill building, expressive arts, and–upon request– a gospel-centered framework.​
Meet Sara
​Sara is a Certified Child Life Specialist, child development expert, and founder of Fruitful Hearth Services LLC. She is dedicated to helping children and families cope as they navigate trauma, stress, illness, loss, and life changes. Her child life interventions emphasize connection, creativity, and upon request, Christ.
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Sara comes with extensive experience with children and families. Her child life experience includes both inpatient and outpatient acute mental health settings, as well as work in the emergency department, oncology, and the pediatric intensive care unit. Prior to entering the field of child life, Sara worked as a children’s art teacher, a preschool teacher, and with adolescents coming out of long-term incarceration. ​
Having facilitated over 1,400 therapeutic groups for children and adolescents in behavioral health crises, Sara specializes in mental-health–informed child life interventions. She also specializes in early childhood family support, parenting support, and family bonding work.
Sara received her bachelor's degree in child psychology from the University of MN - Twin Cities. She completed her child life practicum at West Virginia University Medicine Children’s Hospital in Morgantown, WV, and her child life internship at El Paso Children’s Hospital in Texas.
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Alongside her clinical practice, Sara is passionate about pouring into the kids ministry at her church, where she serves in a leadership role, and she is a lifelong creative—painting portraits, writing poetry, and crafting therapeutic and expressive interventions that support social and emotional well-being, facilitate meaningful connection, and encourage spiritual growth.