About Sarah
Sarah Libby is a licensed clinical social worker with more than two decades of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, and life changes. She is licensed as an LCSW in Florida and Maine and brings a calm, practical approach to sessions. Sarah often focuses on parenting challenges, relationship struggles, grief, trauma, and attention-related concerns.
Her style is warm and direct. She uses gentle questions and straightforward tools to help people build daily coping skills.
Background and approach
Creative methods are part of her work when they fit the person’s needs - she often brings art and activity into sessions to help people access feelings and try new ways of responding. Sarah draws on several evidence-based approaches to shape short-term plans and longer work.
She blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with attachment-based ideas and skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy. The mix aims to strengthen emotional awareness, values-based choices, and practical problem solving. Sessions are adapted to each person.
Sarah writes plans with clear steps and homework when that helps. She pays attention to life context, including caregiving responsibilities, chronic health concerns, and work stressors. People who reach out can expect a focus on concrete change.
Sarah supports skill building for sleep, stress, communication, and parenting. She helps people set manageable goals and practices that fit daily life. Over 24 years she has worked with a broad range of issues across ages and developmental needs.
Her approach aims to be flexible and collaborative so people can find what helps them move forward.
How these approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It’s useful for anxiety, stress, and motivation by focusing on small, value-driven steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to shift them, which helps with sleep, mood, and daily routines. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating and communicating.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and daily life to decide which methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made or needs shift.
Online formats offer flexibility for varied schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face work and art-based activities when appropriate. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or an option with lower bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit brief coaching into a busy day. These options help people keep therapy consistent while matching how they prefer to communicate.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- 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
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Maine, Florida
- Languages
- English