About Sarah
Sarah Close helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or low mood. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with five years of clinical experience. Sarah speaks plainly and aims to make therapy feel calm and manageable for people who are worried about relationship issues, trauma, or self-esteem.
Sarah draws on a relational, trauma-informed stance in her work. She focuses on slowing things down, staying curious, and keeping connection central during sessions.
How Sarah works
That approach is meant to help people notice patterns that get in the way of feeling steady and connected. She also weaves in ideas from the Neuro-Affective Relational Model and Internal Family Systems therapy to help people understand how early attachment and internal parts influence current struggles.
Sessions often involve gentle exploration of difficult memories, noticing how the body reacts, and developing practices to reduce reactivity. Sarah has worked in schools, community counseling centers, group practices, and addiction treatment settings. That range of roles gave her experience supporting adults through life transitions, relationship challenges, and the lingering effects of trauma.
Her style is described as empathetic and intuitive, with an emphasis on building insight. She invites people to shift attention away from what is broken and toward the resilience that brought them to seek help. Her aim is to support a return to a more grounded sense of self and clearer connections with others.
What Sarah works with
The areas below are the ones Sarah selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Sarah works from a relational, trauma-informed frame that emphasizes connection, curiosity, and slowing down to reduce overwhelm. This approach focuses on how relationships and early attachment experiences shape present-day patterns and helps people repair safety and connection.She also integrates ideas from the Neuro-Affective Relational Model, which links bodily experience and nervous system responses to relational history, helping with issues like chronic stress, panic attacks, and trauma-related reactivity. Internal Family Systems concepts are used to help people notice internal parts, understand internal conflicts, and cultivate compassionate leadership of the self.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. Together they will decide which combination of strategies suits the client's needs and preferences.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging offers ongoing reflection between visits. These options make it simpler to attend sessions around work, caregiving, or other commitments while keeping therapy consistent and practical.
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