Creative coaching & mentorship for tenderhearted writers and divergent humans
Because your creative life is your real life.
1:1 Creative Coaching: $777/month · 3+ month commitment · Payment plans and sliding scale available
Your creativity belongs to you
It’s not something you have to justify or earn, and it isn’t reserved exclusively for the disciplined, the endlessly productive, or those with time to spare. Some of us want softer, broader ways of working, ones that honor seasons, cycles, and lived experience alongside outcome.
Creativity is an innate part of being human—and all the more vital to protect when you’re neurodivergent, highly sensitive, or tenderhearted.
A creative practice isn’t an escape from the world, but how we deepen our participation in our own lives.
In my 1:1 coaching and mentorship work, I help writers, artists, and divergent humans reconnect with the creative spark that has always belonged to them.
I've supported creatives with...
Manuscripts · Hybrid essays · Newsletters · Podcasts · Workshops · Poem cycles · Chapbooks · Creative business endeavors · Book proposals · And more
Together, we rediscover—and then nurture the heck out of—your unique creative blueprint.
We do this work holistically, by getting curious about not just the practical aspects of writing and making, but the spiritual and emotional ones, too.
Your “real life” doesn’t have to be at odds with your creative life. We get tricked into believing this when the only model we have is one that doesn’t accommodate us (usually: a patriarchal, neurotypical, and capitalistic one).
Let’s create a space of deep attention, play, curiosity, and genuine presence—one where your ideas can breathe, your instincts can re-emerge, and your creativity can belong to you again.
“Working with Sarah is like inviting Creativity to a loving family therapy session. For me, she has brought the breath of air when my embers are threatening to smolder out. She does this through careful listening, presence and insightful questions. I believe that asking the right question at the right time is an art form, and Sarah is a goddamn wizard at it.”
– Kat HoSoo Lee, Spiritual Business Mentor
Your creativity is an ecosystem. Let’s nourish the whole thing.
Hi, I’m Sarah. I’m a lifelong writer, autistic human, and ex-social worker turned trauma-informed creative mentor and coach.
I help people like you—neurodivergent folks, creative weirdos, purpose-driven artists & sensitive souls—move past struggles and toward creative freedom.
“As a creative coach, Sarah offers so much more than cheerleading, accountability, and frameworks for creative projects. She also has an uncanny ability to process my frustrated rants and philosophical musings into feedback that gives me more insight into my own needs than therapy ever did!
To call Sarah a creative coach is much too simplistic. She is part creative guru, part therapist, and a master at helping me tap into my own dormant creativity. Sarah helped lead me back to loving and appreciating my creativity with her incredible patience and therapeutic support.”
– Christie
Inside the creative laboratory
So many of us learn to relate to our work—and ourselves—through pressure instead of play. Creative coaching is how we address this disconnect directly and bravely.
It’s part coaching, part mentorship, part brainstorming, and part spacious laboratory.
What do we do inside this magical laboratory?
Explore your patterns and tendencies with compassion and curiosity
Prioritize enthusiasm, pleasure, and play
Clarify your intuitions and dreamiest dreams: what you actually want to use creativity for
Untangle the fears & beliefs constricting your natural creative process
Experiment with new ways of approaching the page and your work
Develop practices that are fluid, accommodating, and sustainable, so that creativity remains a lifelong companion
This work is practical, relational, emotional, and deeply human
My clients often leave our sessions feeling lighter and clearer, more connected to themselves, and more excited about their work.
Ready to step into the creative lab with me?
“I came to Sarah because I was creatively stuck, frustrated and blocked. I had spent a full year trying to write a book proposal for my publisher but no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t do it. Everything felt so hard and impossible, until I met Sarah. She has helped me build a sacred connection and relationship to my creativity.
If you are wanting to come home to this sacred part of yourself or if you are wanting an incredibly gifted and wise writer and editor on your side, Sarah is that person. Your life will change if you venture down your own journey with her support.”
– Sarah Baldwin, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Together, we’ll decolonize your inherited beliefs about work and worth and co-create more feral, liberatory frameworks
Let’s disrupt the hierarchy that keeps creativity on the perpetual back-burner. Let’s replace mandates of productivity with the slower, more seasonal pace of fruitfulness. And let’s swap external validation for internal permission: a fortitude of self that lets you show up and participate in the world unmasked, heart-forward, and exquisitely attuned.
Our creative pursuits are not at odds with the world’s inequities and devastations—the opposite: artmaking has always been an ally of change and advocacy. That means self-compassion is necessary not only for the health and vitality of your individual creative practice (let alone wellbeing), but for how we collectively show up, greet, and witness each other in the shared world.
My approach to this work brings together wonder, rebellion, and sincerity all at once.
Let’s reclaim creativity as nourishment (not luxury).
“i didn't know what a creative mentor was until i met sarah. and now i know it’s:
patience and curiosity
interest and enthusiasm
dignified witnessing
sometimes collaboration
sometimes instruction
a deep long look in the mirror where you can finally see yourself clearly.
a space where you can feel like yourself and think like yourself and express express express until it gets less hard and fraught and obstacled
sometimes you just gotta move your desk around”
– Emilie
How we work together
I work with clients in 3+ month containers. During this time, we dive deep into three areas:
Practical needs
From habits and skills to time management, we’ll uncover the practices that support your authentic, holistic self.
Whether you’re working on a specific project or inching back toward a general creative practice, we’ll identify clear, actionable steps to help you move forward with confidence and purpose.
Emotional needs
As a trauma-informed, strengths-based practitioner, I know professionally and personally that creativity intersects with our wounds, gifts, sensitivities, and needs.
Together, we’ll honor the emotional realities that shape your creative life and make space for every part of you, so your creativity can flourish with greater ease.
Spiritual needs
What role, if any, do ritual and magic play in your creative practice? How do you understand your sense of purpose? And does the natural world factor in?
Your creative ecosystem is shaped by these harder-to-measure aspects of who you are. Let’s make space for wonder and enchantment, too.
1:1 Creative Mentorship
$777 per month. No-fee payment plans & sliding scale rates available. Each month includes:
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A unique blend of creative mentorship and trauma-informed coaching. During these calls, we verbally process, brainstorm, and get curious in real time together. It’s where our 1:1 relationship is most deeply built and tended to, and where the most ah-ha’s and revelations occur.
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There are 3 distinct benefits here:
If you’re working on a book or other defined “project,” you’ll receive strengths-based developmental and generative feedback.
Sending me notes, idea fragments, or unfinished drafts adds depth and nuance to our ongoing conversation, allowing insights to show up on the page that won’t show up elsewhere. It’s like having an extra channel open between us.
Practicing sharing your work—in a strengths-based environment, with an enthusiastic reader—can have a huge impact on your sense of confidence and self-trust. This is often one of the most surprising yet powerful benefits of our time together.
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Monthly containers are designed to be flexible and accommodate the needs, questions, and revelations that occur outside our scheduled calls. You’re not just getting my attention for one hour at a time–I’m here as a sounding board and champion throughout the whole of our time together.
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As your coach and mentor, I keep you and your project top of mind. When applicable, I send along supplemental resources and recommendations for in-depth, multi-faceted support.
Let’s step into the creative laboratory together
The next step is to schedule a free, no-pressure intro call.
This “vibe check” helps us make sure working together will be the right fit at the right time.
“Working with Sarah is like being in a literary salon with a philosopher, a psychologist, an activist, a painter, and a friend all at once. She penetrates the writing because she listens deeply to the soul of the writer, to what they’re saying, and especially to what they’re not saying.
Sarah is among the species of editors that are going extinct, her empathy profound, her insights piercing, her generosity almost saintly because it came from a place of having been wounded herself. Any writer would be lucky to have her on their side.”
– Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood, Author of If I Had Two Lives and Constellations of Eve