Sara D. Edwards has her masters and all but dissertation doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Duke University and is a nationally certified licensed professional counselor. Her clinical internship was completed in 1990 at the University of Wisconsin Center for Health Sciences, Department of Psychiatry. Edwards has worked on Psychiatric Inpatient Units and Outpatient Clinics, with special services in Parent-Child, Mother-Infant, Eating Disorders, and PMS Clinics. She has worked as a Staff Psychotherapist treating individual, child/adolescent, marital, and family populations and has been in private practice since 1989. Edwards worked as a Research Specialist at the UW Center for Health Sciences Department of Psychiatry and as an Animal Behavior Research Specialist at the University of Wisconsin Primate Research Center, assisting and conducting independent research in Animal Behavior. Training, research, and experience combined in the fields of Animal Behavior and Clinical Psychology provide Edwards with a unique perspective on equine-assisted psychotherapy. Edwards is a psychotherapist at Interpersonal Therapy, LLC and has developed and practices the theoretical and clinical construct of Interpersonal Equine Therapy © (IPET).

Edwards currently practices Clinical Psychology and Interpersonal Equine Therapy in the Madison area. She is a Clinical Affiliate Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, where she teaches Interpersonal Dynamic Psychotherapy and supervises psychiatry residents.