About Sara
Sara Laliberte is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) based in Massachusetts with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and supports those coping with trauma, abuse, depression, and parenting challenges. She centers care on each person’s strengths and works alongside them to build practical skills for day-to-day life.
Sara approaches sessions as a collaboration. She listens to each person’s story and helps them set realistic goals.
Background and approach
Conversations include learning simple tools to reduce worry, pacing steps toward change, and finding clearer ways to communicate with loved ones. Sessions aim to boost confidence and motivation through steady, achievable progress. <brHer background includes supporting people through family transitions such as adoption and blended family issues.
She also addresses caregiver stress, separation and divorce, grief and hospice concerns, and relationship problems like infidelity and communication breakdowns. First responder and veteran issues are additional areas she has experience with. In practical terms, Sara helps people notice unhelpful patterns and try new behaviors in small steps.
She encourages clients to draw on their strengths and to celebrate progress, even when it feels slow. The work is paced to each person’s needs and readiness. Sara offers sessions using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
She supports clients in finding approaches that fit their daily life and goals, and she helps people make a plan they can follow between appointments.
Evidence-based approaches for online anxiety care
Many of the techniques Sara uses come from established, evidence-based approaches that focus on skills people can practice between sessions. One common method teaches ways to notice anxious thoughts and test them with small experiments to ease worry and avoidance. This approach helps when anxiety gets in the way of daily activities and decisions.Another useful strategy emphasizes practical behavior change through gradual steps and exposure to feared situations. It focuses on breaking big problems into manageable tasks and tracking small wins to build confidence. These methods are often paired with simple coping skills for stress management and emotion regulation.
Choosing the best approach usually happens together. Sara works collaboratively to match techniques to a person’s goals, needs, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. The aim is to find what feels doable and effective for each individual.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for this work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and teaching of skills, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text-based messaging lets people share updates and get brief coaching between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to practice new skills in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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