Iā€™m Sarah Claire

Before we start I want you to knowā€¦

A therapist is not someone you pay to listen to and care for you.

A therapist is someone you pay to help you learn how to listen to and care for yourself.

Human, LMHC,
Certified Life Coach,
Speaker & Educator

ā€‹I am a therapist who sees a therapist. Everyone on our team is engaged in doing their own work. We believe this value keeps us remaining curious, clear, and accountable to our own inner healing and growth.ā€‹

We specialize in a range of trauma informed modalities that allow us to customize and adapt an approach that creates genuine transformation for your unique life experience.


These modalities include EMDR, IFS Trauma Resolution Therapy, Polyvagal Theory, and Narrative Therapy.

We are committed to providing clinically sound and empirically proven techniques that will assist you towards an alive life.

My integrative, deeply explored, deconstructed, and restored Christian spirituality informs my spiritual experience and it also calls me to honor and respect yours. I am well versed in religious trauma and believe that what we believe about God is important in our health and healing. Spirituality and faith expressions have many delicate nuances and stories of pain and love. I am committed to listening and holding your spiritual journey with utmost respect.

ā€œAnything thatā€™s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.ā€

ā€” Mr. (Fred ) Rogers

ā€‹All clinicians in our practice have a person centered, emotion focused, trauma informed, spiritually inspired, compassionate approach.

We are not the expert on you. You are. We are here to help excavate your true self and empower you in wisdom and wholehearted living. 

Much of our work together will include looking to past learnings, trauma, and ways of being that developed to keep you safe, avoid pain, and get your needs met. We will look for the wounds in your story that developed barriers to connection and create new ways of being in relationship with yourself and others. This work has been life-changing for all of us and it is our honor to share these frameworks, practices, wisdom, and healing modalities with you.

Meet Adam Colling LMHC, MCAP, ICADC

Adam has been where you might be now, and is committed to guiding you through the process of peeling back the layers to uncover the root causes of your struggles.

Together, you will work to rediscover the best version of yourself thatā€™s been buried under stress and shame.

Adam is EMDR Certified and IFS Level 1 trained. Together you will explore protector parts of you that have been developed to keep you safe and begin to heal trauma locked in your body to reveal your True Self. This work will free you to make healthier choices, foster deeper relationships, and enhance your quality of life. All of this begins with taking the vulnerable step of investing in your healing and reconnecting with who you truly are.

Adam is also a Qualified Mental Health Supervisor in the state of Florida and has a long history of working in the substance abuse field, helping individuals get free from addictions and heal the trauma and pain that is causing the behaviors.

Adam also works with couples helping them find understanding, insight into their relationship dynamics, and a path towards healing and restored intimacy.

  • Certified Addictions Professional 

  • International Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor

  • Bachelorā€™s Degree in Psychology 

  • Masterā€™s Degree in Counseling Psychology 

  • Nationally Certified EMDR Trauma Therapist 

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapist (Level 1)

  • Certified Life Coach

  • 15+ years experience 

Meet Our Newest Therapist,
Rachel Dowda, RMHCI

Rachel (she/her) is a therapist with a compassionate, embodied, and trauma informed approach.

Rachel believes that healing comes through a restored connection with self, as well as connection to community and spirituality. Rachel understands that there are many ways to heal; with therapy being a powerful part of that. Rachel has experience working with teens, adults, and folks in the LGBTQ community, as well as those struggling with depression, anxiety, childhood trauma, and more. Rachel incorporates Parts Work, Mindfulness, Somatic Approaches and Narrative Therapy. 

Growing up in Florida, Rachel has also spent time living in Northern California and Alabama. Rachel lives in downtown WPB with her cat, Olive. Rachel currently works for a local non-profit, providing therapy for teens and adults. She has found her own healing through therapy, nature, yoga, art, reading, and living in community with others. 

Meet Our Intern, Dalenna

Therapy for young adults, teens & college students at a discounted rate.

Dalenna is a graduate student therapist interning with SC Counseling who specializes in anxiety, depression, relational challenges and life transitions. She provides therapy session for $30 and is under the direct supervision of Sarah Claire.

Dalenna currently works as a school counselor in a high school and is pursuing a second master's in counseling following over 10 years of experience in education and mental health. Most recently she has specialized in providing a safe and therapeutic space for high school students to share their stories and transition into their next season.

Born in Germany and a long-time Florida resident, she finds solace by the ocean, grounding with feet in the sand, looking to at the sky, and reading outdoors. Formerly an avid coffee drinker, she has embraced her tea era. Dalenna passionately celebrates boundaries and supports those courageously navigating life's journey.

Committed to her therapeutic growth, she believes in the transformative power of relationships, emphasizing healing within emotionally and physically safe spaces created through meaningful connections

Dive Deep. Look Inward.

We will never experience the change we seek on the surface. Real change comes from diving beyond the surface within ourselves, our past, our beliefs, and creating new ways of being a human in this world.

Meet Marigold.


Marigold is our trusty (and sometimes rowdy) companion in sessions. She is my angel of a  golden-doodle pup and brings such life and comfort to our sessions. She is thrilled to see you and will give you love and space as you need. I had dreamed of having a little companion in sessions and in life for years and in 2019, she came into my life like an answer to a heart prayer.

She serves as a therapy dog and is hypoallergenic, but if you are allergic to dogs or would prefer to have a canine free therapy space, please let me know. 

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions & Answers 

 

  • My rate is $175 for 50 minutes. There are occasionally sliding scale spots available. If you resonate with me and are interested in working together, please fill out the contact form for more information.

  • I do not take insurance, but I offer superbills!

    A superbill shows an itemized list of services that you have received from an out-of-network provider. Itā€™s basically an invoice that you can submit to your insurance company for partial reimbursement for therapy services. If you are interested in this, please let me know.

  • Depending on availability and your needs, we will create a schedule that serves your goals. If you are a new client, I recommend a weekly rhythm of sessions for one month and then we can move to bi-weekly if needed. After the first month, you set the pace of sessions. I work collaboratively with each client and respect your pace.

  • In a typical session, you can expect to work with a range of modalities suited to your unique being and what is showing up in your life at the time. We will take our first sessions to identify what goals you have and design a treatment path that feels empowering for you. 

    But here is the thing... I cannot do the work for you. 

    You will have to become uncomfortable and vulnerable in order for change to happen. 

    I am a deeply validating and warm therapist but I will also challenge you to get in the arena. 

    ("It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." ā€” Theodore Roosevelt)

    Many of us stay stuck in patterns and ways of being that are all we have ever known and experience shame because nothing seems to change as hard as we try.

    I hope to help you uncover the blocks in the way of your healing but I can't do it for you. Like a midwife can not push the baby out of the canal for the mother, we can not create the new life you long for without YOU.   

    As your emotional midwife I will stay close and remind you to breathe. I will remain witness to your pain and remind you of the glory on the other side. Item description

 

Meditate With Me

I love to start sessions with a guided meditation. Hereā€™s one for you.

ā€œIf your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.ā€

ā€” JACK KORNFIELD

Everyone is welcome, celebrated, honored, and equal in my practice. Come as you are, shameless and whole.

SC Counseling believes in the power or honoring diversity, working for equality, and practicing inclusivity. We acknowledge that this work is an ongoing journey and will never assume we have fully reached our destination. We are committed to continuing our inner work that leads to social change and compassionate lives.