About Sarah

Sarah Buino, LCSW, RDDP, CADC, CDWF, NMT is a speaker, educator, consultant, therapist, and the founder of Head/Heart Therapy and Head/Heart Business Therapy.

As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker; Registered Dual Diagnosis Professional; Certified Alcohol and other Drug Counselor; Certified Daring Way facilitator; and NARM Master Therapist; Sarah holds a master’s degree from Loyola University in Chicago and undergraduate degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

For more than a decade, Sarah has applied her social work skills supporting individuals, groups, helping professionals, and organizations with issues as varied as wellness for helping professionals; shame resilience; anti-racism in healthcare; and healing developmental trauma. Sarah founded Head/Heart Therapy in 2014, which quickly grew into an important resource for clients and professionals alike, both in Chicago and nationally.

Sarah is energized by supporting helping professionals and healthcare organizations.

She still holds a small caseload of individual clients, and now focuses her talents on healing at the group and organizational level by integrating not only her clinical knowledge, but also her business experience.

The Podcast

Sarah is also the creator, host, and producer of the podcast Conversations with a Wounded Healer, which examines the parallel path of helping professionals of all types as they heal themselves while supporting their clients. Interviewing prominent guests such as Lissa Rankin; Laurence Heller; Hillary L. McBride; Roberto Che-Espinoza; and Sera Beak. Sarah holds intimate and authentic conversations that inspire, educate and entertain listeners. Addressing a wide range of topics from spirituality to anti-racism, she invites helping professionals to step into their own healing with courage.

Recent Episodes

In 2019, Sarah helped launch the podcast Transforming Trauma by The NARM Training Institute and served as its host for its first two years, interviewing leading trauma experts including; Gabor Maté; Dick Schwartz; and Veronique Meade; and educating listeners on the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) – a revolutionary approach for healing Complex Trauma (C-PTSD) and restoring connection to self and others.

Recognitions & Awards

  • Professional of the Year (2022)

  • Emerging Leader (2017)

  • Rising Star (2018)

  • Gratitude for Giving Humility Award (2014)

The HHBT logo combines the iconic circled heart from the original practice logo with the slash between Head/Heart. The slash through the heart also represents the wounded healer archetype, which is alive in all people in therapeutic professions and the subject of Sarah’s podcast Conversations with a Wounded Healer.