Meet our Educational Therapist

Sarah

Sarah is an associate educational therapist, certified special educator in Maryland, and has her board certification in special education advocacy. After graduating in 2014 with a bachelors of Science in Psychology, biological psychology concentration, Sarah began working as a paraeducator and ABA therapist. In 2019, Sarah became a high school special education English teacher at a local non-public special education school for students with social emotional disabilities. After leaving that position, Sarah has had experience in small self-contained settings working with students with learning disabilities and autism. In January 2025, Sarah started Autonomous Hippopotamus to address the injustice and inequity she experienced within the system which she felt was failing our neurodivergent students academically, socially, and emotionally.

Sarah takes inspiration from her own lived-experience as a neurodivergent person as well as the many students that she worked with in her over 10 years of experience working with diverse neurodivergent student populations and ages. Not only does she understand how the brain learns, but also what it’s like navigating a world not build for us.

She is currently working towards her Masters in Educational Therapy at NDNU and has just completed her first year in the program in addition to nearing completion of her first DIRFloortime certification.