About

I just want to
help people live.

I'm Sara Banyan — survivor, speaker, advocate, filmmaker, author.

I grew up the middle child of a psychiatrist father and a psychiatric nurse mother. The family joke was that we were the most messed-up kids in the world.

It took thirty years, dozens of wrong therapists, and one specialist — Will Randle, LCSW — to identify what no one ever had: I had been sexually assaulted as a child, before I had language for it.

From 2016 to 2020, I worked intensively with Will. His somatic, attunement-based approach became the foundation for my healing and my practice. Building on that work, I developed the 3-Breath Protocol, the Rewire Method, and the Tap In / Tap Out framework — practices I've used with high-performing clients, including Cy Young Award–winning pitcher Barry Zito, Apple Music Creative Director Zane Lowe, and actors Jesse Williams, Noah Centineo, Jamie Ray Newman, Mekia Cox, and La Monica Garrett.

After nineteen years of coaching, I closed my studio to do this work full-time. I self-funded and produced I Believe You — a 56-minute documentary, now in festival submission. An early 21-minute cut won the Mental Health Impact Award at the Ethos Film Awards. The book of the same title follows in fall 2026.

I hold a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. I am the founder of A Place to Call Home, a 501(c)(3) supporting youth aging out of foster care.

I am here for every survivor who was never seen, never heard, or never believed.

#IBelieveYou