COUPLES THERAPIST  ✧  PITTSBURGH & ONLINE PENNSYLVANIA

Meet Sable

EFT-trained, culturally affirming, and deeply committed to your healing. LGBTQ+ affirming, neurodiversity-affirming licensed therapist.

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Hi, I’m Sable.

Sable Arend, MS, LPC, RYT-200 (they/them)

Licensed Professional Counselor | Advanced Trained Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist | Registered Yoga Teacher

I believe that healing happens in connection with others, and I'm passionate about supporting couples as they move beyond recurring cycles of conflict toward greater understanding, emotional safety, and lasting change. As a queer and neurodivergent therapist, I bring both professional expertise and lived experience to my work, with specialized experience supporting LGBTQIA+ relationships, neurodivergent couples, trauma, and non-monogamous relationships.

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MY PRACTICE

The work I do is grounded in EFCT, attachment science, emotion, and the nervous system—exploring how we reach for connection, protect ourselves when it doesn't feel safe, and navigate our deep human longing for closeness, security, and belonging.

We need care, safety, and loving connection to grow. Healing happens when we are met with compassion, acceptance, and support rather than judgment, harshness, or criticism.

In our work together, there is no expectation that you show up in a certain way. We work with what is present, trusting that every emotion, reaction, and protective strategy developed for a reason.

Together, we create the conditions where you and your relationships can soften, heal, and grow.

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WHAT I BRING

My work is shaped by my clinical training and lived experience as a queer, nonbinary, AuDHD, disabled human. These identities inform how I sit with clients: with care around pacing in session, with respect for sensory and emotional overwhelm, and with deep attention to safety, consent, and collaboration.

I also bring a deep respect for difference. No two nervous systems, relationships, or histories are the same. We work together to find what actually fits you.

Outside of therapy, I’m often in my craft room making fiber arts projects of crochet, macrame, or needle arts, or spending time with my spouse and our two cats, Ruby and Emmy. I also teach yoga, practice mindfulness and meditation, and am a Buddhist, which supports my ongoing relationship to presence, compassion, and mindful living.

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Ruby (left, striped gray tabby) ; Emmy (right, dark solid gray)

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Board of Directors — Pittsburgh Community for EFT

Pittsburgh Community for EFT

ICEEFT Lifetime Membership

Central PA Community for EFT

Philadelphia Center for EFT

American Counseling Association Professional Member

Master of Science (MS) in Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling, University of Pittsburgh

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biokinetics with an emphasis in Exercise Science; Bachelor of Art (BA) in Philosophy, Bethel University

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania, PA #PC019051

Emotionally Focused Therapy Training

  • 4-day EFCT Externship (Dr. Cindy Goodness Zane, ICEEFT Trainer)

  • 6-day Extended EFCT Core Skills (Dr. Cindy Goodness Zane, ICEEFT Trainer)

  • 4-day LGBTQ-Centered EFCT Externship — as Helper (Dr. Robert Allan and Dr. Sandra Taylor, ICEEFT Trainers)

  • 4-day EFCT Externship — as Helper (Heike McCahon, MA, ICEEFT Trainer)

  • EFCT with Complex Trauma Training (Jef Slootmaeckers, LMFT, ICEEFT Trainer)

  • Suicide Assessment in EFT (Rachel Thomas, LMHC, ICEEFT Trainer)

  • EFCT and Sexual Cycle (George Faller, LMFT, EFT Trainer)

  • Working with Autism within an EFT Framework (Heike McCahon, MA, ICEEFT Trainer)

  • Working with Shame in EFT (Dr. Rebecca Jorgensen, ICEEFT Trainer)

  • Ongoing EFCT supervision with certified EFCT supervisors

Yoga Teacher Training

  • Registered Yoga Teacher 200hr (Yoga Alliance)

  • 200hr Yoga Teacher Training and Certification (Yoga & Ayurveda Center)

  • 1-day Trauma-Sensitive Yoga training (Jenn Turner, Center for Trauma and Embodiment)

  • 25hr Restorative Yoga Teacher Training (Yoga & Ayurveda Center)

  • 25hr Chair Yoga Teacher Training (Yoga & Ayurveda Center)

  • Trauma Processing Yoga Group Levels 1 & 2 Training (Amy Battersby, LMHC, CTSC, RYT)

Additional Trainings

  • Brainspotting: Integrating the Neuroexperiential Model for Rapid Trauma Healing (Dr. David Grand)

  • Brainspotting Phase 1 for LGBTQ+ Professionals (John Edwards, LCSW, Certified Brainspotting Trainer)

  • 2-Day Intensive Trauma Treatment Certification Workshop (Dr. Arielle Schwartz)

  • EMDR & Parts Work for Treating Complex Trauma (Dr. Arielle Schwartz)

If something here feels right, I'd love to hear from you.

Reach out to schedule a free Discovery Call and see if we might be a good fit or connect with me if you have any questions.

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