About Sara
Sara Dabney is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida who focuses on anxiety and stress. She brings five years of clinical experience and a straightforward, compassionate style. Her background blends mental health work with earlier training in body-centered practices.
Sara speaks English and offers sessions in several online formats. Sara earned a Master of Social Work from the University of South Florida. While there she received Title IV funding for an emphasis in child maltreatment and contributed to research on HIV and PTSD symptoms.
Background and approach
Before clinical social work she trained as a yoga teacher and earned a massage therapy license in 2014, which informs her attention to the body in therapy. In-session she uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people manage anxiety, depression, and stress.
She also uses dialectical behavior therapy strategies and motivational interviewing techniques when they fit a person’s goals. Sessions focus on simple, teachable skills people can use between meetings. Sara supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, substance issues, eating and body image matters, parenting strains, and transitions in life.
She is comfortable working with LGBT clients and with those facing chronic illness, caregiving burdens, adoption and foster care issues, autism-related concerns, and alternative sexual cultures. Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Sara encourages small, achievable steps and practical strategies that reduce distress and build more satisfying daily routines.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It helps people with anxiety, avoidance, and life changes by teaching ways to stay engaged with what matters despite uncomfortable feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and replacing them with practical, testable alternatives. This approach is helpful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many daily struggles because it gives concrete tools and homework to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then suggest methods to try. Adjustments are made over time so therapy fits the person’s life and needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break or a quick check-in. Live chat or text messaging can work for short check-ins, ongoing support, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help people access consistent care without a commute.
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- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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