About Sarah
Sarah Close is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Oregon who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She writes and talks plainly in sessions so concerns feel easier to name. Her approach aims to help clients slow down, notice patterns, and reconnect with inner strengths.
Sarah brings five years of clinical experience in community settings and treatment programs. She has worked in schools, counseling centers, group practices, and addiction treatment facilities, which gives her a practical sense of how life challenges show up day to day.
Background and approach
Her work is informed by relational and trauma-aware ideas. She draws on the Neuro-Affective Relational Model (NARM) and Internal Family Systems concepts when they fit a person’s needs. In practice, that can mean exploring how early attachment, stress, and body responses shape current reactions.
Sessions tend to be steady and reflective. Sarah emphasizes curiosity over blame and looks for small shifts that build resilience. She likes to help people reconnect to their values and to resources they may not be noticing.
People who prefer a calm, thoughtful pace and practical tools find this style useful. Sarah balances insight with down-to-earth strategies that can work between sessions. She honors each person’s courage in asking for help and partners with them to make changes that feel manageable.
Relational and Trauma-Informed Care Online
Sarah uses trauma-aware and relational methods that focus on connection and patterns. The Neuro-Affective Relational Model (NARM) helps look at how early attachment and long-term stress shape current behavior and emotional responses, which can be useful for people coping with abandonment, attachment issues, or chronic stress. Internal Family Systems ideas support identifying different parts of a person’s inner life and helping those parts communicate more calmly, which can ease shame, guilt, and internal conflict. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Sarah will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and adapt techniques over time. Together they decide whether relational exploration, parts work, practical coping skills, or a mix of methods will be most helpful. Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people read facial cues and work in real time, phone sessions can be quicker or use less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging provide short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, different comfort levels with being on camera, and ways to keep momentum between meetings.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- 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
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English