Sarah Astarte grew up in Sacramento, California, to South Asian parents, and grew up in a multicultural atmosphere. She attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she received her B.A. in psychology with a minor in communications. She has a Ph.D. in transpersonal psychology, and an M.A. in psychology, from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California. She completed a chaplaincy residency at Stanford Hospital, and is an interfaith minister and chaplain. She has also worked as a hospice chaplain in the East Bay, California. She is a professor of psychology at Diablo Valley College and Sacramento City College. She is a diversity trainer, and facilitates events, rituals and conference presentations in the greater Bay Area. Sarah has studied numerous spiritual traditions, and has helped clients of diverse backgrounds. She identifies as bicultural and is fluent in Urdu/Hindi and English. She is a certified Reiki practitioner, intuitive counselor and indigenous healer.
She lives in Sacramento with her husband and her cats. She is an avid reader, and enjoys bellydancing, fire dancing, painting, baking, and being one with nature. Her work centers on helping her students and clients heal and transform into their most empowered selves. Her first book “The Lover Within: Exploring the Relationship Between Body Image in Adult Women and Archetypes of the Lover” was released in 2010.