Hello! We are Wider Circles.
Have you ever felt like healing work is too isolated or serious? Felt you’ve had to outsource inner wisdom and sacrifice self-trust to fit a professional mold or fit in? Have you ever longed for a place to build connections, unlock your gifts, clarify your purpose and play?
So did we.
As it turns out, this is much easier to do together than alone. We built Wider Circles Collective on the feminine principal of power with, braiding our unique talents and passions to uplift one another with practices that allow us to witness ourselves and each other with clarity, and reclaim what has been lost over years and generations. Now, we want to empower you to grow and blossom brightly, too.
The world needs your magic!
Where we began…
Our work and friendship blossomed together in counseling graduate school over a decade ago. Together we have worked in community mental health, academia, and private practice therapy settings, all the while exploring our own spiritual paths. As we’ve witnessed and woven them into our lives, we’ve learned they are essential to fortifying our ability to meet the call of healing in these current times with resilience. We now love offering our unique blend of grounded practices with spiritual guidance, inviting other intuitives, highly sensitive people and healers tap into their own creativity and liberation, sustaining their work and infusing it with magic!
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Sarah Block
Co-Founder
From intuitive messages to Reiki energy healing, Sarah’s ability to weave together multiple ways of working with the divine is unmatched. Her signature blend of kindness and directness helps her clients feel understood and supported while receiving guidance that gets right to the heart of the matter. Her arrows of truth are always in the service to her clients’ — and the world’s— greater good.
Sarah has a background in early childhood development and Marital, Couple, and Family Therapy. She has been a Licensed Professional Counselor in Oregon for over a decade and has worked in a wide variety of settings and roles including community mental health, early education, private practice, and business. Sarah has worked on creative projects such as product and program development for a leading children’s emotional learning brand and consulted on programming for apple tv+. Sarah loves the challenge of weaving together intuition and meaning-making throughout all of her work and projects and empowering others to do the same. Magic can be found anywhere! -
Raina Hassan
Co-Founder
As a storyteller/poet, therapist, and master-level Reiki healer, Raina brings many gifts to her sessions. Her creative practices allow Raina to weave together guidance for each of her clients, helping them access their hidden gifts, inner wisdom, and soul’s guidance. Are you ready for your hero’s journey? Raina will help you find your inner light to illuminate the path forward.
Raina is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has worked in community mental health and private practice settings since 2013. She also provides supervision for LPC and LMFT registered associates. Raina has served as an instructor for the School of Social Work and the Counselor Education Department at Portland State University since 2012 and is the past president of the Oregon Counseling Association. Whether she is leading an organization, teaching a class, or providing mental health therapy, Raina loves helping others tap into the wisdom found in both their heads and their hearts.
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Claire LaPoma
Co-Founder
From spelunking in the deep caverns of grief, to soaring with the wisdom in the stars, Claire makes trail-blazing look easy. A true forest Sprite, Claire’s ability to bring levity, compassion and play to the darkest of trails will help you find the spark inside of you, that you may not have even noticed was missing. Her ability to help her clients feel known and cherished is one of her greatest gifts.
Claire is a Licensed Professional Counselor, working with courageous clients of all ages in agency and private practice settings since 2013. Having begun her relationship with therapeutic grief work programs in 1999, she has continued to get formally trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, and other integrative, somatic, and mindfulness-based approaches. She also enjoys teaching in the Masters in Counseling program at OSU Cascades in Bend, OR as as associated faculty, combining leadership with soulful intuition and evidence-based skill. Whether tending grief, awakening inner wisdom, or weaving ritual in community, Claire creates spaces that feel enchanted and safe—places where true transformation can take root.
Our Approach
Wider Circles Collective is all about helping you tap into your own unique gifts, inner wisdom, and magical potential. And YES! We mean MAGIC! We utilize coaching and healing methodologies that move away from the western medical model (note: we do not provide psychotherapy or medically necessary treatment through Wider Circles Collective). We don’t shy away from the silly, the strange, the shadow work, or the unknown, but we strive to find the magic, joy, and awe in each moment.
1:1 Healing Work
Individual work can be a powerful and necessary part of one’s journey. Learn more below about our unique offerings for coaching, energy work, and a tailored approach to healing and personal growth to help you on your path.
Growing Together
We offer a range of workshops, trainings, and retreats to help you on your journey. Sometimes working together is more fun, and the community you gain on retreats is well worth your time.