About Libby
Dr. Libby Black is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and depression. She brings 18 years of clinical experience and offers steady support for people coping with trauma, relationship problems, and difficult life changes.
Her work centers on practical strategies combined with a warm, nonjudgmental stance. She listens closely to each person's story and focuses on small, doable steps that reduce distress. Sessions emphasize coping skills, clearer communication, and managing strong emotions.
Background and approach
Dr. Black uses a mix of approaches to match what a person needs. She draws from cognitive behavioral methods to spot unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and stay engaged in meaningful activity. Her background includes helping people with issues like abandonment, caregiving stress, chronic illness, codependency, and recovery from domestic violence. She also supports those facing commitment or communication problems and the emotional fallout from separation or divorce.
Based in New York, Dr. Black sees people through video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Her sessions are set up through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people accept difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, avoidance, and getting back into meaningful activities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety and mood concerns.Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they adjust the plan over time so sessions stay relevant and doable.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video offers face-to-face discussion and real-time interaction. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t convenient. Live chat and text can be useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or short updates between longer sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, and other daily demands, and help maintain continuity when someone moves or travels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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