Sarah Chernoff
Registered PsychologistSouth Location
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arah Chernoff is a child, adolescent, family, and individual clinical psychologist with over five years of experience helping families and individuals navigate anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, feeding and eating disorders, neurodevelopmental challenges, and behavioural difficulties. Her training and ongoing practice emphasize evidence-based care, nuanced assessment, and systemic intervention; she believes in working with families, not on them.
Sarah is nearing completion of her doctorate in psychology with a clinical emphasis and is a registered psychologist in Alberta. She has specialized training in many types of assessment and treatment, and she approaches each individual or family with an integrative lens. Trained in psychodynamic approaches, Sarah also incorporates therapeutic techniques from various disciplines, such as humanistic-existential therapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy, narrative therapy, transference-based therapy, values-based therapy, and family dynamics/interpersonal patterns relational therapy. She places a particular emphasis on formulating each child in context—their temperament, developmental stage, family dynamics, and environment—and tailoring interventions accordingly.
Sarah is a certified provider of SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), a parent-based, evidence-based treatment developed by Dr. Eli Lebowitz. Unlike traditional therapy models that rely on direct child change, SPACE empowers parents to reduce accommodation and respond supportively to childhood anxiety, fostering resilience and autonomy in the child.
In addition, Sarah is trained in SPACE-ARFID, which adapts the SPACE model to parent-based treatment for children with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder and severe picky eating. In SPACE-ARFID, parents learn to systematically reduce accommodation around food behaviours and gradually promote increased flexibility in eating patterns.
Sarah’s therapeutic style is warm but direct. She partners with caregivers to equip them with tools and strategies, rather than shouldering all the change alone. Her mission is to help children and families move from chronic distress to sustainable growth, with clarity, courage, and compassion.
In addition, Sarah is trained in SPACE-ARFID, which adapts the SPACE model to parent-based treatment for children with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder and severe picky eating. In SPACE-ARFID, parents learn to systematically reduce accommodation around food behaviours and gradually promote increased flexibility in eating patterns.
Sarah’s therapeutic style is warm but direct. She partners with caregivers to equip them with tools and strategies, rather than shouldering all the change alone. Her mission is to help children and families move from chronic distress to sustainable growth, with clarity, courage, and compassion.
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arah Chernoff is a child, adolescent, family, and individual clinical psychologist with over five years of experience helping families and individuals navigate anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, feeding and eating disorders, neurodevelopmental challenges, and behavioural difficulties. Her training and ongoing practice emphasize evidence-based care, nuanced assessment, and systemic intervention; she believes in working with families, not on them.
Sarah is nearing completion of her doctorate in psychology with a clinical emphasis and is a registered psychologist in Alberta. She has specialized training in many types of assessment and treatment, and she approaches each individual or family with an integrative lens. Trained in psychodynamic approaches, Sarah also incorporates therapeutic techniques from various disciplines, such as humanistic-existential therapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy, narrative therapy, transference-based therapy, values-based therapy, and family dynamics/interpersonal patterns relational therapy. She places a particular emphasis on formulating each child in context—their temperament, developmental stage, family dynamics, and environment—and tailoring interventions accordingly.
Sarah is a certified provider of SPACE (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions), a parent-based, evidence-based treatment developed by Dr. Eli Lebowitz. Unlike traditional therapy models that rely on direct child change, SPACE empowers parents to reduce accommodation and respond supportively to childhood anxiety, fostering resilience and autonomy in the child.
In addition, Sarah is trained in SPACE-ARFID, which adapts the SPACE model to parent-based treatment for children with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder and severe picky eating. In SPACE-ARFID, parents learn to systematically reduce accommodation around food behaviours and gradually promote increased flexibility in eating patterns.
Sarah’s therapeutic style is warm but direct. She partners with caregivers to equip them with tools and strategies, rather than shouldering all the change alone. Her mission is to help children and families move from chronic distress to sustainable growth, with clarity, courage, and compassion.
In addition, Sarah is trained in SPACE-ARFID, which adapts the SPACE model to parent-based treatment for children with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder and severe picky eating. In SPACE-ARFID, parents learn to systematically reduce accommodation around food behaviours and gradually promote increased flexibility in eating patterns.
Sarah’s therapeutic style is warm but direct. She partners with caregivers to equip them with tools and strategies, rather than shouldering all the change alone. Her mission is to help children and families move from chronic distress to sustainable growth, with clarity, courage, and compassion.
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