Klara Suparman, LCPC, ATR-BC
Klara is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and Board-Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC) who earned her master’s in counseling and art therapy from Adler University. With a background in studio art and women and gender studies, she brings creativity, cultural awareness, and deep compassion into the therapy space. Her experiences working in a range of mental health settings, including medical and psychiatric hospitals, community mental health, and private practice have shaped a flexible, trauma-informed, and relational approach. Klara believes our healing is intertwined. Her work is rooted in the understanding that her liberation is bound up with the liberation of those she walks alongside—within and beyond the therapy room. She is committed to co-creating spaces that are anti-colonial, anti-oppressive, and grounded in equity, healing, and joy.
As a cisgender woman and child of Indonesian immigrants with Chinese ancestry who grew up working class, Klara’s lived experience shapes how she shows up in the world and in the therapy room. From an early age, she learned how to move through systems (both oppressive and protective) and gained a deep awareness of the privileges she holds and those she was denied. She believes that being in community is not only healing; it’s necessary for survival. These experiences fuel her commitment to therapy that centers shared humanity, cultural humility, and collective care.
Klara works with couples and individuals navigating post-traumatic stress disorder, complex trauma, sexual trauma, religious trauma, and familial trauma. She is passionate about helping people feel connected to their bodies, reclaim pleasure through sexual healing and exploration, and build healthy, affirming relationships with themselves and others. Honoring each person’s story and the context in which it unfolds, Klara collaborates with clients to identify their strengths, increase insight, build practical skills, and celebrate growth along the way. She is especially attuned to those navigating shame, disconnection, and relational harm, with a focus on creating pathways to empowerment and embodiment.
Grounded in warmth, curiosity, directness, and authenticity, Klara is trauma-informed, kink-affirming, sex-positive, and affirming of all identities and relationship structures. Her approach is rooted in intersectional feminism, cultural humility, ecopsychology, and anti-oppressive frameworks. With a commitment to decolonizing the therapy room, Klara centers each client’s knowledge, cultural context, and lived experience in order to challenge the power dynamics that have long shaped the mental health field. Through creative, body-based, and community-rooted interventions, she supports healing that engages the mind, body, and spirit. She integrates a range of evidence-based modalities—including ACT, DBT, MI, Systems Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Parts Work, Relational Therapy, and The Gottman Method—while remaining responsive to each person’s evolving needs. In sessions, the therapeutic relationship becomes a space to reimagine connection, pleasure, and liberation.
If you'd like to learn more about Klara before booking, you can also view her profile on the Liberatory Wellness Network.
