About Isatu
Isatu Sidibe is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with nine years of experience based in Alaska. She meets people where they are and helps them take the first steps toward change in clear, practical ways. Her style is direct but warm, and she emphasizes strengths her clients already have.
Isatu focuses on common and painful concerns like anxiety, depression, grief, anger, addiction, and relationship strain. She also helps people facing parenting stresses, intimacy issues, complicated loss, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Phobias are part of the broader concerns she supports people with when they come up in sessions. Her background includes work in community mental health settings, hospitals, schools, and correctional facilities. That variety shaped a flexible approach that adapts to each person’s situation.
She brings nine years of hands-on clinical experience to conversations about coping and change. In sessions she uses practical methods drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches, acceptance and commitment work, attachment-focused ideas, and client-centered listening. Expect clear tools you can practice between meetings and straightforward discussion about what’s working and what isn’t.
Isatu offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a time that fits your needs.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and values, then take action that matters. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and when someone feels stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with depression, phobias, and mood challenges. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early and current relationships shape reactions and closeness, which can help with relationship strain and intimacy issues.Finding the right approach is often part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose and adjust methods so sessions fit the client’s needs and priorities.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and situations. Video lets people read facial cues and use visual materials. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging provide brief check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent while fitting it into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces 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)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Alaska
- Languages
- English
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