Sarah Close, LPC

Sarah Close, Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oregon, has five years of clinical experience and works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She describes her approach as relational and trauma-informed and notes use of the Neuro-Affective Relational Model (NARM) and Internal Family Systems ideas.

Sarah emphasizes slowing down, staying curious, and maintaining connection during sessions. She focuses on helping people notice patterns that keep them stuck and on building insight into how past experiences shape current feelings and behaviors. Sessions aim to shift attention from problems alone toward the client’s resilience and strengths.

Her background includes work in schools, community counseling centers, group practices, and addiction treatment settings. She also has experience teaching, writing, and working in business. This variety informs a practical style that blends relational thinking with trauma-aware techniques.

In practice she often guides clients to explore attachment patterns, abandonment concerns, and difficulties with communication and relationships. She also works with issues such as body image, caregiver stress, chronic pain or illness, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, isolation, and life purpose questions.

Sarah describes her manner as intuitive and focused on building insight. She frames therapy as collaborative work to notice old coping strategies and to develop healthier ways of relating to self and others. People who want a relational, trauma-aware approach may find this fits their needs.

Therapeutic approaches and working online