Licensed Professional Counselor

Pronouns: She/Her

​Claire Woster is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who is passionate about the resilience intrinsic to all people. She uses this passion to cultivate a healing dynamic with clients that illuminates personal strengths and fosters empowerment. Through the use of therapeutic relationship Claire aids in exploration of needs, values, and belief systems which allows for development of the most direct healing path for each person she works with based on their unique background.

Claire teaches approachable mindfulness and cognitive techniques that help clients develop the ability to listen to internal experiences with curiosity. This compassionate self-exploration aids in disconnecting identification with thought patterns and works to uncover underlying beliefs about self and world. In turn, this work increases ability to rewrite internal patterns of cognition and emotion and external patterns of behavioral responses to difficult experiences.

Claire has specific training to work with trauma survivors and trauma response at a somatic level. She utilizes knowledge about brain/body processes to normalize trauma activation and the effect it has on relationships with Self and others. She teaches clients to investigate the language of their body which aids in the development of tools to regulate emotion, promotes agency over internal experience, increases distress tolerance, and aids in the re-storying of narratives associated with experience.

Claire is a LGBTQIA2S+ competent, sex and kink positive clinician. She is drawn to work with adults who experience symptoms related to acute and complex trauma, grief, shame, depression, and anxiety as well as clients who experience personality and other attachment related disorders. Claire is a Certified Brainspotting Practitioner and a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy practitioner. She also utilizes tools from Levels 1 and 2 Gottman Method relational therapy in her practice.

Claire obtained a certification in Ecopsychology and a Master of Arts in Professional Mental Health Counseling with an emphasis on Mind/Body/Spirit from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon and is the Secretary for the Alaska Regional Chapter of The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (AK-ISSTD).

Claire was born and raised in North Pole, Alaska. She spends most weekends backpacking, trail running, xc skiing and splitboarding.