Sarah Lowry is a trained mental health counselor specializing in Drama Therapy and Somatic Experiencing®. Lowry currently serves as an individual and group clinician at Centerpoint Adolescent Treatment Services in South Burlington, Vermont, where she serves teenagers and their families, with a particular interest in the ways that individuals, families, and communities are informed by complex and intergenerational trauma. She also has a private practice in Northfield, Vt where she works with adults blending bodywork, psychotherapy, and Somatic Experiencing® to provide a body-based approach to healing trauma and chronic stress.
Lowry comes to this work with experience as a theater artist, a dancer, a community organizer, and a massage therapist. She has a wealth of arts-based experience, serving as a performer, director, producer, stage manager, and teacher. She was the co-founder of The Missoula Oblongata, with whom she collaborated on a wide range of projects that included community theater productions, full-scale national tours, and workshops with youth and adults of all ages on collaborative theater creation.
Lowry received her undergraduate degree from Haverford College in Pennsylvania and a master's degree in Drama Therapy from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“Great place overall. Beautiful grounds, excellent service and friendly staff and well-maintained rooms/property. Also the food was awesome, creative and unique. Great experience, very relaxing and tranquil overall, if your looking for a retreat from the city!”
Dan B.
“The experience I’ve had as a volunteer here at Menla has been a unique one. I had recently experienced the loss of a number of friends, and of my father, before coming up for a retreat, and then coming back as a volunteer. Not only was the work I did up in these gorgeous mountains an amazingly cathartic experience, but the support I received from the community that exists here was unlike anything I had previously experienced.”
Reina de Beer
“You know that thing when you think you soul might be finally crushed for good and the nameless, wordless, friendless dread of the city has sucked you dry? Well, this place has the cure. You can help with the grounds and garden, you can yoga and meditate, you can get the best massage in 48 states, you can eat the most delicious vegetarian cuisine, and my favorite, walk the trails and paths through bubbling brooks and over rushing waterfalls and regain your spirit and feel the beat of your heart in time to nature.”
Robbie S.