About Sarah
Sarah Riggs is a clinician with decades of experience helping people manage anxiety and other challenges. She holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, and she draws on a long career to offer steady, practical support. She focuses on addictions, mood disorders, and anxiety-related concerns.
Many people come to her for help with depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, or the fallout from trauma and abuse. She also assists with anger, self-esteem, and workplace stress.
Background and approach
Her approach is straightforward and tailored. Sessions include focused conversation, problem-solving, and planning that fit each person's goals. She pays attention to cultural background and the ways that identity and life experience shape a person’s needs.
Over 30 years of work in Maryland have included supporting people with drug and alcohol addiction and with issues related to military service. She also notes experience with personality disorders, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety and phobia, and ADHD-related challenges. In sessions she emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
She aims to help people take small, manageable steps toward change. The goal is clearer coping strategies and a steadier day-to-day life.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Many clinicians use cognitive-based methods that help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new responses. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and social anxiety because it focuses on small, testable changes in thought and behavior.Another common approach involves skills for managing intense emotion and stress. These techniques teach step-by-step strategies for calming down, tolerating distress, and improving relationships when feelings run high. They are often used for anger, trauma reactions, and mood instability.
Finding the right method is a shared process. A therapist will work together with each person to choose strategies that match their goals, strengths, and daily life. Plans get adjusted over time based on what helps and what doesn’t, so the work stays practical and focused on real concerns.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation without traveling. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to share brief updates, ask questions between sessions, or fit care into a busy schedule. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to keep up with day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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