About Us

Therapy for all.

 

Live Oak Collective, LLC is owned by two colleagues and friends, Sarah Kincheloe and Sarah Roubieu. It emerged in response to the demands for better access to mental health care and better workplaces brought on by the pandemic.

Sarah and Sarah met as clinical supervisors at a community mental health agency serving vulnerable communities.  Because of this, when moving to private practice after many years working in the nonprofit sector, they placed a high premium on access to care for all people.

Unsurprisingly, they both found that accepting insurance is stressful and time consuming for solo clinicians. “The Sarahs” also quickly found that demand for quality therapists who accept insurance greatly exceeded what they could provide. In conversations with other therapists, they began to understand that many value accessibility, but find it overwhelming to work with insurance companies.

The two of them soon began to have serious conversations about what it would look like to expand into a group practice – with dual goals of expanding access in the state of Texas and providing excellent support and benefits to clinicians.

Today Live Oak Collective is a growing telehealth practice credentialed with all major insurers, with clinicians across the state of Texas, providing high quality, trauma-informed, LGBTQIA+ and culturally affirming care to all Texans.

  • Sarah Roubieu, LCSW-S

    Prior to formally entering the world of social work and psychotherapy, Sarah Roubieu lived and worked on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Mission, South Dakota. This experience re-shaped her worldview and began to orient her to a new idea of what her own future should look like. Though it would take several more years of travel and working at jobs that she hated, Sarah entered graduate school in clinical social work at The University of Texas at Austin in 2006.

    Sarah has been in practice for over sixteen years. She enjoys helping people in the midst of critical life transitions and on working to become their most authentic selves. She is happy to work with individuals who feel stuck or who haven't found therapy helpful in the past. She is particularly focused on helping people heal from trauma, with an emphasis on the wounds of early childhood. She provides a healing and non-judgmental space that helps to facilitate new insight, learning, and growth.

    Prior to private practice, Sarah worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings. She has experience treating individuals across the lifespan, beginning as young as five. Due to her years of experience in both inpatient and crisis settings, she is able to diagnose and effectively treat mood and thought disorders as well as substance use and personality disorders.

    In addition to her master’s degree from UT Austin, Sarah holds a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology from Connecticut College. She is licensed to practice social work in Texas and in New York and has been a board approved clinical supervisor in Texas for over a decade. Additionally, Sarah is certified by EMDRIA in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and has completed additional training and consultation in complex-PTSD and dissociative disorders.

    Sarah is co-founder and Co-Clinical Director at Live Oak Collective. In her spare time, Sarah enjoys amassing various collections of vintage treasures, listening to classic country music, shopping at thrift stores, spending time with her family, and trying to get her dog Piggy to do tricks.

  • Sarah Kincheloe, LCSW-S

    Sarah Kincheloe was born and raised in Austin, Texas. Unsure what to do with herself after college, she volunteered as an English teacher for refugees in Austin, a GED coach for immigrants in Brooklyn, and was a lifeguard at a summer camp for underprivileged kids in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, all while doing other boring jobs like waiting tables, temping in assorted offices, answering phones at a financial firm, assisting various bank executives, and working at what people thought was the information desk at the Brooklyn Criminal Court.

    Now Sarah holds a master’s degree in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago as well as a bachelor’s in Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Board-Approved Supervisor in Texas with over a decade of experience in Austin, Chicago & NYC.

    Sarah worked in community mental health for 12 years as a case manager, counselor, clinical supervisor and team lead. She has experience in crisis, inpatient and outpatient settings, and is skilled in diagnosis and treatment of mood and thought disorders, personality disorders, PTSD, and substance use.

    Sarah has experience counseling adults dealing with trauma, depression, anxiety, family problems, parenting and relationship challenges, caregiver stress, grief and loss, and many other issues. Since starting her own private practice in 2020, Sarah has completed EMDR training and has also pursued additional training in trauma related dissociation and treatment of dissociative disorders.

    As a social worker, Sarah is passionate about social justice and has worked on reforms related to mental health and the criminal justice system, homelessness, and mental health access. She is a proponent of anti-racism and is an ally for LGBTQIA individuals and communities.

    Sarah is co-founder and Co-Clinical Director at Live Oak Collective. In her free time, Sarah likes to read, garden and bike.

Building Community Partnerships

Live Oak Collective is proud to partner with the Texas After Violence Project (TAVP). You can read more about them here. As an organization uniquely dedicated to honoring those affected by state violence in its many forms – police brutality, in-custody death, mass incarceration, and the death penalty – TAVP provides training to clinicians through their Access to Treatment Initiative. The Access to Treatment Initiative helps therapists address the mental health needs of a population that has been notably unrecognized and underserved up to now: family members of individuals who have been sentenced to death or executed. All Live Oak Collective therapists have the option to attend this additional training (at no financial cost) and then to be included on a referral list that TAVP maintains.