Faculty, Faith-Based Couple and Family Therapy Certificate Program
Sarah McCaslin, M.Div., LCSW, is a licensed psychotherapist and faculty member in the Ackerman Institute’s new Faith-Based Couple and Family Therapy Certificate Program. Her approach to psychotherapy integrates spirituality as a living presence within Rebeca Brau Martínez, MS, MFT, LP, is a bilingual marriage and family therapist, educator, and researcher whose work bridges systemic practice, social constructionist theory, and community-based healing. At the Psychotherapy and Spirituality Institute in New York City, she provides culturally responsive and spiritually integrated therapy to individuals and couples, centering relational wellbeing and equity in care. Rebeca’s teaching and scholarship focus on epistemic justice, Indigenous knowledge, and decolonial approaches to psychotherapy, with continuing education courses that integrate breathwork, contemplative practice, and critical inquiry. A recipient of Mercy University’s Outstanding Systemic Practitioner of Community Engagement Award and fellow of the American Family Therapy Academy’s Emerging Leaders Social Justice Initiative, she is committed to expanding the field’s understanding of how context, culture, and power shape therapeutic relationships and possibilities for liberation.
systems we inhabit and the identities we embody—gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, immigration status, and beyond—offering a model of care that is holistic, relational, and rooted in liberation.
