Not Just Therapy…

A Path to True Connection and Healing

Specialized Individual & Couples Counseling

West Palm Beach, FL

"A Safe Place for All Parts of You."

The Bungalow

A space to find home within

Our Mission:

We are committed to taking the journey with you in creating avenues for healing, connection, compassion and freedom.

We believe everyone deserves a safe place to help them find home within themselves and in their most important relationships.

We know that this can be hard to navigate on your own. That is why therapists exist.

We would be honored to walk with you on the path to connection.

A new way of being is possible...

A new way of being is possible...

A Letter to you,

At Bungalow Counseling, we provide empathetic support for anxiety, trauma, relationships, and self-discovery. Our compassionate, trauma-trained therapists create a welcoming space to help you find a sense of home within yourself. We encourage you to be brave, real, and authentically you.

Have you become a parent, lost a parent, gone through divorce, or experienced a major life transition? You might feel exhausted by self-criticism and perfectionism. If you recognize the wounds from your upbringing, you may seek to heal trauma and foster deeper relationships with yourself, others, and your spirituality.

You may be facing a new life phase, relationship, heartbreak, religious doubts, spiritual reconstruction, boundary issues, addiction, anxiety, burnout, depression, sexuality concerns, relational patterns, or a desire for more joy and peace.

Whatever you are facing, we are ready to face it with you.

The quality of your life ultimately depends
on the quality of your relationships.

― Esther Perel

Tools, Offerings,
and Modalities

  • Individual counseling is a type of mental health service provided by a licensed therapist to help people work through personal issues, such as stress, depression, anxiety, relationship issues, grief, and more. It is a confidential, client-centered approach to therapy that focuses on helping the individual reach their goals and improve their overall mental health and wellbeing. The counselor will typically work with the client to identify their problem areas, develop coping strategies and techniques, and create an action plan to help the individual move forward.

  • Relationship coaching is a form of life coaching that focuses on helping people improve their personal relationships. Through the use of a mediator, effective communication, and conflict resolution skills, a relationship coach can help couples, families, friends, and other individuals resolve issues and create healthier bonds. The aim of relationship coaching is to create a safe, supportive environment in which both parties can discuss their challenges and emotions openly and honestly, and develop strategies to better understand and manage their relationship.

  • Many of us need a safe place to make sense of evolving spiritual beliefs and values and intentional religious trauma healing. I offer a space to process the trauma of negative religious experiences that may have resulted in shame, confusion, and feeling spiritually homeless. This work involves recognizing and understanding the impact of rigid, oppressive, and toxic beliefs due to religious teaching, practices and institutions, as well as exploring strategies to cope with the past and give birth to a new and flourishing spiritual life and practice.

  • EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and Parts Work/IFS (Internal Family Systems) are psychotherapeutic techniques that focus on resolving traumatic memories, reducing psychological distress, and building a strong and harmonious internal system. EMDR focuses on using bilateral stimulation (eye movements, sounds, or tapping) to process the traumatic event and reduce its intensity, while Parts Work focuses on understanding the internal parts of the individual and how they interact with each other while strengthening the core adult self. Both approaches can be used to help people identify and resolve internal conflicts and traumatic experiences.

  • Enneagram coaching is a form of personal exploration that leads to implementation. We use the Enneagram typing tool to help clients discover their personality type, values, and motivations in order to better understand themselves, develop self-awareness, and create healthier relationships. It combines the core principles of the Enneagram, a system of personality typology, and various coaching techniques to create an effective and personalized approach to helping individuals reach their goals. Through Enneagram coaching, people can gain insight into their strengths and weaknesses, as well as how their personality type affects their behavior and decisions. This can lead to more meaningful relationships and improved mental health.

  • I’m available for bookings as a speaker at a various array of events, workshops, and retreats. I thrive in the Arts Education space with students as well as higher education and team/staff settings.

    I offer seminars such as:

    Mental Health and the Church

    The Whole Artist- Human First- Artist Second

    Enneagram: What is is and how it helps

    Reach out to me via my contact page to start the conversation.

  • Using elements from The Artist’s Way (written by Julia Cameron), Inner Child Work, and Guided Meditations we will work together to ignite your inner artist and set goals for your creativity. This offering is for actors, dancers, musicians, and visual artists to integrate personal discovery and healing work into your performance and creative crafts. SC has a background in the performing arts as a Musical Theatre actress and knows the benefit of therapeutic work to enhance your artistry. This work is also offered in group settings.

Trauma Healing
Couples Counseling
Burnout
Life Transitions
Relationship Dynamics
Anxiety
Depression
Spiritual Confusion / Trauma 
Emotional Awareness
Spiritual Formation

Specialities Also Include Helping You Navigate

the quality of your relationships determine the quality of your life

the quality of your relationships determine the quality of your life

  • "Working with Bungalow has changed my life and how I show up in my world. Her gentle and curious approach to listening, teaching, and modeling has led me to experience healing within myself, as well as relationships with those I hold close to my heart. Sarah Claire has taught me how to show up as a curious sister, friend, daughter, and human. She has walked me through my darkest pains of grief, and held my heart through my most healing journey of finding my inner artist. Walking through life with SC is, and will continue to be, a transformative experience."

    Taylor

  • "Sarah Claire is warm and wise. She not only has the tools to help me discover my life's passions, but her trustworthy spirit empowers me to become passionate in my spiritual, physical, relational and vocational endeavors. One session with her set me on a journey to invest in myself. Seeing her continues to be a worthy investment. My hope is that more people experience this gift for themselves."

    Mary S.

  • "I sought out Bungalow for counseling in a “lost” time in my life. I remember my first session with her, asking her “teach me to find happiness and to love myself.” I had done therapy in the past but truly wanted to dive into the "Why?" behind my feelings. There were times I loved seeing and talking to Sarah Claire, and there were times were I would dread it. Crying before, during and after sessions. I soon learned that these hard sessions were growing me. I was learning about all the parts of myself. I was learning to be gentle with my younger self, to love and care for that little girl. After many sessions and some tough love, I can say I am in a better place. By no means am I “finished” and “changed” but still slowly learning to give myself grace in this crazy world we live in. I was the one who never thought therapy could change me. I would often tell Sarah Claire, “this isn’t going to work"...but with her patience and my consistency, she helped me lower my protectors and find my true core self…. Who loves therapy now!!!”

    Jenna

  • "Working with Sarah Claire has quite literally saved and changed my life. In my consistent work with SC, I have gained the tools and skill sets to tackle and address crippling habits, overwhelming anxieties, and spiraling patterns. There is no exaggeration in the statement ‘I do not know where I would be without working with SC.’I feel empowered, confident, and equipped to handle the constant ups and downs that life throws my way, due to the tactics I’ve adopted in this consistent work. I am beyond thankful for this space and the life-saving/changing growth I’ve discovered, due to this therapist-client relationship."

    Becca

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The Session Experience

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. 

In this space we listen deeply.

We slow down to breathe.

We normalize the human experience.

We name and feel emotions.

We explore truer and more loving expressions of God.

We comfort our little child selves. 

We honor laughter and tears.

We call out toxic belief systems.

We celebrate courage, vulnerability, and resilience.

We befriend our most annoying and painful parts of us.

We get curious about how past and current wounds show up in our bodies and behaviors today.

We learn to regulate our nervous systems. 

We expose oppressive systems and work towards justice and equality and freedom for all.

We practice listening to our bodies. 

We create new neural pathways that will lead us into a healthier and more present life.

We grow in our skills to navigate the wild terrain of what it is to be human.

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BELL HOOKS SAYS,

“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”