Sarah M. Farrell (she/her/hers) spent the first decade of her career in clinical practice, working with diverse clientele. She returned to academia to focus on answering questions. She has experience in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research. Focused on bringing sound empirical knowledge to the extant literature, she set out to better understand the phenomenon of religious trauma. Her teaching and research work both seek to decolonize and deconstruct within education.  She focuses within the educational and clinical sphere on bringing kind perusal and self-reflection into the learning process, with the overarching goal that learning about ourselves helps us decrease judgment of the "other."