Sarah Libby
Supportive therapist for families and parenting
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed in
- Maine, Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sarah
Sarah Libby is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 24 years of experience. She practices in Florida and focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, ADHD, and other life challenges. She draws on long experience with children, adolescents, and adults to shape practical support for everyday problems.
She describes therapy as a collaborative process. Sessions are adapted to each family’s needs and to what feels comfortable for the client.
Background and approach
Sarah uses art and creative activities when helpful, especially with younger clients, to make sessions more engaging and to open new ways to express feelings. Her background includes work across a wide range of issues such as trauma and abuse, grief, sleep problems, bipolar disorder, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and attachment concerns.
She has spent decades working directly with parenting issues and with children and teens, which informs how she approaches family dynamics and developmental concerns. Sarah uses several evidence-based tools in her work, choosing methods that match the person and the situation. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every interaction, and she tailors conversations and plans to each family’s priorities.
For parents who want practical help, she aims to make therapy straightforward and usable. She supports people through life changes, communication struggles, and behavior challenges with clear techniques and steady guidance.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting support
Sarah uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people move toward meaningful values even when feelings are hard. ACT focuses on clarifying what matters and taking small steps toward those goals while learning to live with difficult thoughts and emotions.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current family patterns. This approach helps parents and children notice interaction cycles and try new ways of connecting that feel safer and more responsive.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Sarah works together with each family to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time so the plan fits what is working and what is not for the family.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options can make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to keep momentum between appointments. The formats also allow for different ways to use creative tools when possible, and Sarah will discuss which format suits a family’s goals and daily life.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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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
Next step
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- Stop at any point