About Sarah
Sarah Close is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and relationship strain. She speaks plainly and listens with care, creating space to notice what matters most. Her approach aims to help clients feel steadier and more connected to their own strengths.
Sarah draws on five years of clinical experience across schools, community counseling centers, group practices, and addiction treatment settings. She has worked with adults facing life transitions, addiction recovery, and the long-term effects of trauma.
Background and approach
That background shapes how she tailors conversations to practical concerns like panic, mood shifts, and self-esteem. Her practice emphasizes relationships and trauma-informed care. Sarah uses ideas from the Neuro-Affective Relational Model (NARM) and Internal Family Systems Therapy to help people understand how past experiences affect present behavior.
Sessions often include noticing patterns, naming painful parts, and trying small changes between meetings. Sarah also supports people coping with chronic pain, illness, caregiver stress, and the fallout from separation or loss. She helps clients work through guilt, shame, forgiveness, and isolation, and she assists those rebuilding life purpose in midlife and beyond.
Based in Oregon, Sarah offers sessions in English and uses video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging. She works with clients who want steady, thoughtful support for anxiety, depression, panic, and relationship challenges.
How evidence-based methods work online
Sarah draws on trauma-informed, relational methods to help clients understand patterns rooted in past experience. The Neuro-Affective Relational Model (NARM) focuses on how early attachment and developmental wounds shape reactions today and can help with chronic anxiety, attachment issues, and feelings of disconnection. Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) helps people identify and dialog with different parts of themselves - for example a panicked part or a self-critical part - and learn kinder ways to relate to those parts.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, history, and what feels most helpful. Together they will try techniques, notice what changes, and adjust the plan so sessions match the client's needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation without travel time. Phone sessions can fit a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow ongoing check-ins between appointments and are useful for brief updates or grounding exercises. These options help people access consistent care around schedules and life demands.
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What this therapist 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
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