About Isatu
Isatu Sidibe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Alaska. She brings nine years of clinical experience and a practical, down-to-earth style. Isatu aims to meet people where they are and help them move toward clearer goals.
She focuses on common struggles like depression, anxiety, stress, grief, anger, and relationship concerns. She also helps with addiction, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Additional areas of attention include abandonment, attachment issues, communication problems, codependency, and guilt and shame. Isatu has worked in community mental health, hospitals, schools, and correctional settings. That variety informs how she tailors sessions to different life situations.
Her work includes individual counseling and group facilitation. Her approach combines practical skills and personal reflection. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to clarify values and take meaningful action. Sessions are client-centered and strengths-based. She also uses elements from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and attachment-focused methods when they fit the client's needs.
The goal is steady, manageable progress rather than quick fixes. Isatu works with people in Alaska and provides therapy in English. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire identifies options that fit each person's situation and goals.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small steps toward those values while learning to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and habits, and it teaches practical skills to change how you respond to situations and manage mood or anxiety. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication when feelings feel overwhelming.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. This means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - provide flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video helps with face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a break at work or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, homework support, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Alaska
- Languages
- English