Find Your Path to Personal Growth
Working together to discover new ways of creating meaningful relationships and experiences
About Sage Therapy
Through life’s challenges, sometimes we need a safe and confidential space to process emotions and relationships as we navigate life’s complexities. Our dedicated team of therapists offers compassionate and personalized psychotherapy services for individuals, couples, and families from adolescence to adulthood. Specializing in addressing a range of challenges, including anxiety, depression, substance use disorders, complex trauma, and relational issues, we are proud to provide inclusive and affirming care. Committed to guiding you on a path of personal growth, our team aims to tap into your inner wisdom and facilitate a transformative journey toward healing.
Accepts Telehealth Appointments
Accepts Online Payments
Accepts Insurance
Our History
Erica Brier-Kennedy, LMFT-D, CASAC, CCTP, and CIMHP, has been in private practice since 2009. In 2022, she launched Sage Therapy, a group practice designed to meet the growing demand for high-quality therapeutic services. At Sage Therapy, our team is committed to providing compassionate, personalized care that empowers clients to heal, grow, and create meaningful change in their lives.
Our Services
Located in Fayetteville, NY, we offer a range of specialized therapy services designed to meet your unique needs and help you achieve a more balanced and fulfilling life.
Individual Therapy
We help individuals navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, relationship concerns, and life transitions by fostering greater self-understanding and emotional awareness. Therapy offers a supportive space to explore the patterns and experiences that shape your life, deepen your connection to your inner strengths, and create lasting change that feels authentic and sustainable.
Couples Therapy
Couples therapy helps partners better understand the patterns that contribute to conflict, disconnection, and recurring challenges within their relationship. Through a collaborative process, couples gain insight into the emotions, experiences, and needs that shape their interactions, fostering greater empathy, deeper connection, and more meaningful communication. Together, we work to strengthen trust, navigate challenges, and create a relationship that feels more secure, fulfilling, and connected.
Family Therapy
Family therapy helps families better understand the patterns, roles, and emotional experiences that shape their relationships. By creating space for each family member’s voice and perspective, families can move beyond blame and reactivity toward greater understanding, connection, and collaboration. Together, we work to strengthen communication, navigate life transitions and conflicts, and create a family environment where each member feels valued, supported, and understood.
Our Therapists
Erica Brier-Kennedy, LMFT-D, CASAC, CCTP, CIMHP
Practice Owner/Therapist
Erica works with individuals, couples, and families navigating trauma, addiction, depression, anxiety, grief, and relationship challenges. She provides collaborative, integrative care that supports healing, growth, and balance. As an AAMFT-approved supervisor, Erica is dedicated to mentorship and professional development. Her approach emphasizes empowerment and overall wellness, helping clients recover from addiction, manage stress, and improve their sleep. She integrates mind–body practices into therapy, combining psychological insight with somatic awareness to promote holistic healing and a deeper sense of wholeness.
Laura Stumhofer, LMFT
Therapist
Laura specializes in helping couples deepen connection, improve communication, and enhance relationship satisfaction, including exploring sexual dynamics. She is also dedicated to empowering adolescents in self-discovery. With expertise in uncovering unconscious thoughts and emotions, Laura guides clients to understand the origins of behavioral patterns and transform them into healthier, more authentic connections. A certified yoga instructor with extensive knowledge of Eastern philosophy, Laura offers clients the option to integrate yoga and Eastern principles into their therapeutic journey, creating a holistic path to personal and relational growth.
Leanne Nagle, LMFT-D
Therapist
Leanne offers a tailored therapeutic approach through individual, couple, and family sessions, specializing in trauma, depression, anxiety, grief, and LGBTQIA+ affirming care. She provides letters of support for clients seeking medical gender-affirming care and brings particular expertise in helping teens develop positive self-image and coping skills. Leanne’s philosophy focuses on restoring balance, guiding clients to process past and present experiences and reconnect with their authentic selves.
RianSimone Harris, LPMFT
Therapist
RianSimone Harris works with individuals, couples, and families navigating life transitions, relational challenges, trauma, anxiety, and depression. Her collaborative, relational, and trauma-informed approach supports clients in exploring how past experiences shape current patterns, gently guiding them toward what feels more aligned with their authentic selves. RianSimone is known for her warm, compassionate, and nonjudgmental presence.
Emily Lavin, LMFT
Therapist
Emily specializes in assisting individuals, couples, and families, focusing on adolescents and adults. Whether you’re grappling with transitions, anxiety, depression, self-esteem obstacles, relationship issues, trauma, stress, women’s concerns, or other difficulties, she is here to offer attentive listening and help you uncover your strengths and barriers to growth. At the heart of Emily’s therapeutic approach is the transformative framework of Internal Family Systems therapy, which encourages the exploration of emotional landscapes and facilitates healing and personal development. She integrates techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), attachment-based, narrative, and emotionally focused modalities to tailor treatment to your unique needs. Emily has developed an affirming approach tailored to individuals exploring their authentic identities.
Amelia Lopez, LPMFT
Therapist
Amelia Lopez works with individuals, couples, and families navigating trauma, intimacy, identity, and relational challenges. She specializes in trauma recovery, relationship distress, sexual identity exploration, anxiety, and depression. Her approach is experiential, emotion-focused, and grounded in trauma-informed and attachment-based principles. Amelia creates a calm, collaborative, and nonjudgmental space where clients can safely explore their experiences and move toward greater connection with their authentic selves.
Annemarie Sohn, LPMFT
Therapist
Annemarie, a PhD candidate from Syracuse University, provides individual, couple, and family therapy with expertise and research interests in LGBTQ+ affirming care, trauma, separation and divorce, co-parenting, neurodiversity, stress, depression, anxiety, and relational challenges. Her approach honors the complexity of your story and centers the body as a site of wisdom and survival. She co-creates a space of safety and connection, resisting the individualization of pain that often arises from systemic harm. Drawing from experiential, narrative, and other emotion-focused approaches, she works to deepen emotional access, strengthen relational attunement, and foster resilience, self-compassion, and acceptance. Through curiosity, authenticity, and safety, she is dedicated to helping you develop a sustained capacity for meaningful connections with yourself, others, and your broader community.
Tomlin McLoughlin
Therapist
Tomlin is a pre-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works with adolescents, adults, individuals, couples, and families struggling with anxiety, depression, past and present trauma, emotional challenges, relationship issues, communication problems, family dynamics, separation and divorce, and addiction. Drawing from her own lived experience, she brings a deep sense of empathy and authenticity to every client she works with. Tomlin believes that healing begins with feeling truly heard, and she is committed to building relationships rooted in warmth, trust, and collaboration. Her goal is to create a safe, supportive space where clients can show up as they are: open, honest, and ready to work toward lasting change.
Why Choose Sage Therapy PLLC?
A Thoughtful, Whole-Person Approach
We recognize that people are shaped by their relationships, experiences, values, and environments. Rather than focusing solely on symptoms, we take time to understand the broader context of each client’s life. By exploring emotional, relational, and personal factors, we help clients develop greater self-awareness, strengthen resilience, and create meaningful, lasting change.
Accessible & Flexible Therapy Options
We are committed to making quality therapy both accessible and convenient. Sage Therapy accepts major insurance plans, including UnitedHealthcare, Aetna, and MVP, and offers out-of-network courtesy billing for many insurance providers. For added flexibility, we provide secure telehealth services that allow clients to attend sessions from home, work, or another private location. By offering both in-person and virtual appointments, we strive to remove common barriers to care and make it easier for individuals, couples, and families to access support in ways that work for them.
Inclusive Environment
At Sage Therapy PLLC, we are deeply committed to creating a space where all individuals feel seen, respected, and valued. We honor the diversity of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, religious affiliation, and ability. Our therapeutic environment is affirming and inclusive, with a strong emphasis on cultural humility and responsiveness to each person’s lived experience.
Take the First Step Toward Healing, Growth, and Lasting Change!
Location
Sage Marriage & Family Therapy, PLLC
523 East Genesee Street Fayetteville, NY 13066
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Tel: 5184000313
Email: ebrierkennedy@sagepllc.org