- Collection:
- Archives for Research on Women and Gender
- Title:
- Sharon Sanders oral history interview, 2016-10-21
- Creator:
- Sanders, Sharon J. (Sharon Jeanne), 1941-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Schroeder, Ilene
- Date of Original:
- 2016-10-21
- Subject:
- Nineteen sixties
Educators
Children of clergy
Women psychotherapists
Lesbian couples - Location:
- United States, Florida, 28.75054, -82.5001
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Cleveland, 41.4995, -81.69541 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Sharon Sanders was born in Missouri to a Baptist minister father and a homemaker mother. Her family moved around frequently during her childhood. Sanders earned degrees from Stetson University and Yale University, and eventually moved to Cleveland, Ohio and became a teacher. She moved to Atlanta in 1969 and taught at Oglethorpe University before eventually joining the staff at Karuna Counseling and working in private practice. Sanders lives in Pine Lake, Ga. with her wife and cats. Established in 1974, the original mission of Karuna Counseling was to provide high quality, compassionate care for women. Over the years the practice has grown, developed and expanded its focus, and it now provides holistic psychotherapy services to men, women, adolescents, families, couples, businesses, and organizations in the Atlanta, Ga. area. The Karuna Counseling Oral History Project aims to document the history of the counseling practice through peer interviews with its therapists.
In this interview, Sharon Sanders describes her early life as the daughter of a Baptist minister. She describes her relationship with her mother as involving frequent conflict. Sanders discusses her experiences as a hippie in the 1960s, including moving from place to place with her girlfriend. She describes her education and career path and discusses her time at Karuna in detail. Throughout the interview, Sanders characterizes herself as politically progressive and concerned with social justice. She ends the interview talking about her current life with her wife. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/arwg/id/20489
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/arwg:20489/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Sanders, Sharon, interviewed by Ilene Schroeder, October 21, 2016, Karuna Counseling Oral History Project, Archives for Research on Women and Gender. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:42:19
- Original Collection:
- Archives for Research on Women and Gender
http://research.library.gsu.edu/karuna
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Karuna Counseling Oral History Project - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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