Sadie Salazar is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the Chief Operations Officer at Sage Therapy. Sadie was drawn to the vision of creating an organization where community, connection, and relational practice are embodied at every level, and joined Sage shortly after it was founded. In her role, she combines her clinical background with organizational leadership to support the ongoing mission of building a practice that nurtures clinicians and delivers exceptional quality care. 

Sadie’s role focuses on forging connections through clinical care, community partnerships, operational management, and cross functional collaboration. She seeks to create and uphold a culture that values transparency, vulnerability, and innovation. She is driven by the transformative and healing power of relationships, bringing this lens to both her clinical and leadership roles. She is widely consulted on matters related to clinical training and development, trauma and attachment, stress management, workplace well-being, organizational management, and burnout prevention. She provides clinical consultation and supervision that centers cultural humility and trauma informed practice. 

Sadie’s clinical work began in the nonprofit sector, where she focused on working with marginalized communities, addressing community violence, and providing mental health treatment for complex trauma. She has worked with families, couples, and individuals across the lifespan, and has particular interests in complex trauma, life transitions, relationships and relational patterns, chronic stress, identity development, gender and sexuality, and family of origin and attachment wounds. Sadie applies an integrated approach informed by psychodynamic, attachment, and polyvagal theories, Internal Family Systems, and DBT. 

Sadie holds a BS from Miami University and a Master’s in Social Work from Boston College. She completed clinical training at the Justice Resource Institute in Boston,  completed her postgraduate fellowship with the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, is a former EMT-B, and has worked in juvenile justice, residential treatment, community mental health, EAP, and outpatient settings. Sadie is trained in EMDR and is licensed to practice in Illinois and California. 

Outside of her role at Sage, Sadie remains engaged in the Chicago community by lending time and leadership to local initiatives, volunteer organizations, and as an executive board member of Erie Neighborhood House.