- Years in practice
- 24
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Maine, Florida
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Career difficulties
About Sarah
Sarah Libby is a licensed clinical social worker with more than two decades of practice. She is based in Florida and brings 24 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and parenting challenges. Sarah often pairs practical skills with creative methods to make sessions feel more engaging and useful.
She focuses on everyday problems parents face, including sleep struggles, self-esteem, and juggling caregiving demands. Sarah also has experience with ADHD, grief, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Her work includes attention to attachment and developmental concerns for children and adolescents she has seen during her career. Sarah uses several approaches to tailor a plan to each person. She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to address thinking and behavior patterns, acceptance-based tools to handle hard feelings, and attachment ideas to strengthen relationships.
She describes therapy as a collaborative process where goals are set together and adjusted as needed. Creativity is part of her toolkit. When appropriate she offers art-based activities to deepen insight and make learning new skills more concrete, though art work is harder to use in phone or chat formats.
Sessions aim to be respectful and compassionate while staying focused on what a person wants to change. Sarah frames the first steps as practical and doable. She helps people identify small, manageable changes and builds on successes over time.
Her style blends warmth with straightforward strategies to help parents and individuals move forward.
What Sarah works with
Everything Sarah lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Sarah helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Sarah lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approach, Attachment, and Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people accept difficult feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes where avoidance has become a problem.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and shifts behaviors that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, sleep issues, and low mood because it gives clear, step-by-step exercises to try between sessions.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people change how they relate to others. This can be especially helpful for parenting concerns, attachment issues, and relationship patterns that repeat across time.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose strategies that match goals, preferences, and the particular challenges being faced. That plan can change as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill teaching and art-based work when possible. Phone sessions or audio-only options are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, and ongoing tracking of progress between longer sessions.
Questions people ask about Sarah
What issues does she help with?
She helps with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, grief, sleep problems, self esteem, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and caregiver strain among other issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is collaborative and practical. She blends cognitive-behavioral ideas, acceptance work, attachment-focused thinking, and creative exercises to meet real life goals.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 24 years of professional experience working in clinical settings and community care.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a licensed clinical social worker with FL LCSW and ME LCSW credentials and practices from Florida.
Which languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How do fees and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on availability.
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