Background & Training

With a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University, Sarah brings deep clinical training and research experience to her coaching work. She partners with professionals who feel blocked by perfectionism, internal pressure, unclear goals, conflict, or emotional overwhelm. She also supports leaders navigating demanding roles who want to communicate with more clarity, compassion, and effectiveness.

Sarah specializes in strengthening the two engines that drive human behavior:

  • The mind — our beliefs, identity, emotion, self-talk, and meaning-making

  • The brain — our executive functions: planning, prioritizing, time management, regulation, and follow-through

When these systems fall out of sync, people experience chaos, indecision, burnout, and relational strain. When they align, everything becomes clearer.

Her signature Brain-In-Mind™ Method integrates psychology of the brain, coaching, and strategic consulting into a cohesive framework that helps clients build personalized systems for clarity, follow-through, and sustainable change. She is currently writing a book on the Brain-In-Mind™ Method, bringing her science-based approach to a broader audience.

Sarah also designs and facilitates trainings on executive functioning, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, feedback, identity, and communication for organizations and professional teams. As co-author of Microinterventions, she is recognized for her work in identity, cultural competence, and behavior change. She has delivered workshops and keynote presentations on Microinterventions and strategies to interrupt everyday bias.

Sarah helps clients not only understand what’s holding them back—but redesign the internal systems that move them forward.

Publications

Brain-In-Mind™ My forthcoming book to learn how to realign the mind and the brain so they work together instead of in conflict. It’s a guide to clarity, confidence, and sustainable action.

Executive Functioning: Why It Matters for Everyone - Read here
National Association for Law Placement (NALP), December 2024

This article explores why executive functioning is foundational to performance, well-being, and sustainability in high-demand professional environments—particularly within law firms. It reframes EF challenges as skills gaps rather than deficits and highlights why these skills matter for everyone, not just neurodivergent individuals.

Mentalization Based Treatment for Children and Families with ADHD - (In Press)

Microintervention Strategies (Wiley)- Read here

Microintervention Responses: A Qualitative Study- Watch here

“Arab, Brown and Other”: Identity & Well-Being - Read here

Help-Seeking and Mental Health Stigma - Read here

Sexual Orientation Disclosure & Mental Health (Meta-Analysis)- Read here

We Call It the Eye and Night — Poetry, published in the Love Anthology Series- Read here

Sarah Alsaidi, PhD · Brain & Behavior Strategist