About Sarah

Sarah Buino, LCSW, RDDP, CADC, NMT is a speaker, educator, consultant, and therapist known for integrating personal healing, therapist leadership development, and systems-level thinking.

She is the founder of Head/Heart Therapy and Head/Heart Business Therapy, where she supports helping professionals and group practice leaders in building psychologically healthy, relationally skillful, and ethically grounded workplaces.

As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Dual Diagnosis Professional, Certified Alcohol and other Drug Counselor, and NARM Master Therapist, Sarah brings a deeply integrative lens to her work. She holds a master’s degree from Loyola University Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

For more than a decade, Sarah has supported individuals, groups, helping professionals, and organizations around issues including therapist wellness, shame resilience, developmental trauma, ethical use of power, and anti-oppressive practice in healthcare. She is especially known for her work at the intersection of the inner life of the therapist and the systems they work within, helping clinicians and leaders understand how trauma, power, culture, and business structures interact.

Sarah’s work focuses on helping healers grow personally, lead relationally, and operate wisely within complex and rapidly changing systems. Through her teaching, consulting, and speaking, she supports therapists and group practice leaders in developing the psychological and relational capacity needed to lead with integrity in today’s mental health landscape.

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. What began as a show exploring the parallel healing journeys of helping professionals has grown into a deeper inquiry into the intersection of personal, professional, and systemic healing. Through honest, unscripted conversations with over 300 guests, Sarah explores how trauma, resilience, power, culture, and leadership shape both our inner lives and the systems we live and work within. Blending psychological insight with big-picture questions about mental health care, social systems, and collective well-being, the podcast invites listeners to consider how caring for ourselves and transforming our institutions are inseparable parts of the same healing journey.

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)

  • Best Story Award in Category Therapists As Clients (2025)

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.