Sarah Libby, LCSW

Sarah Libby is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 24 years of experience. She practices in Florida and helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, parenting challenges, ADHD, and life transitions. She often brings a creative approach to sessions and tailors her work to each person's needs.

Her background includes long experience with children, adolescents, and adults, and a particular interest in parenting and disability-related concerns. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every conversation. Sessions are shaped around what matters most to the client and their goals.

Sarah uses practical strategies to address day-to-day problems like sleeping issues, low self-esteem, and coping with change. She also supports people dealing with more complex patterns such as attachment challenges, codependency, or chronic illness. Her work combines problem-focused tools with attention to emotions and relationships.

Therapeutic approaches she commonly uses include cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, client-centered principles, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. She adapts methods to fit the person rather than sticking to a single template.

When appropriate, Sarah incorporates art and creative exercises into treatment to deepen insight and engagement. She notes that creative methods work best in video or in-person formats rather than text or phone. Her aim is to help people make steady, practical progress toward a more manageable life.

How online therapy can use CBT, ACT, and attachment work

Sarah often uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people identify unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. CBT focuses on practical steps and experiments to reduce worry, improve sleep, and change routines that get in the way of daily life.

She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values. ACT can be useful for coping with chronic stress, grief, or changes that feel overwhelming.

Attachment-based techniques are used to look at relationship patterns and early experiences that shape how people connect and trust. This work can help with communication problems, commitment issues, and challenges around abandonment or attachment concerns.

Deciding which approach to use is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has worked before. Over time she adjusts methods to fit the individual rather than forcing one style of therapy.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video lets people use creative exercises when appropriate, phone can be a shorter check-in or less bandwidth, and chat or messaging can support brief updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options provide flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or mobility limits.