About Libby
Dr. Libby Black uses a blend of practical therapies to help people manage anxiety, phobias, and stress. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 18 years of experience in New York.
Her style is warm and straightforward, focused on helping people find concrete ways to feel safer and more in control. She helps people facing depression, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, and relationship struggles.
Background and approach
Dr. Black also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and the emotional fallout of separation or divorce. She pays attention to issues like codependency, commitment worries, and communication problems when these come up.
Her approach combines acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral skills, attachment-based thinking, client-centered listening, and techniques from dialectical behavior therapy. In sessions she uses practical exercises, values work, and skill-building to reduce fear and improve daily coping. Conversations are direct but compassionate, and she works with each person at their own pace.
People can expect clear goals and step-by-step strategies. Dr. Black uses exposure-based steps when relevant for phobias and anxiety, paired with attention to emotions and relationships.
She aims to help clients practice new ways of responding to stress, build trust in themselves, and handle triggers more easily. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. New clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Black commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. ACT focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that matter, which can reduce avoidance and help with phobias and life transitions. CBT breaks down unhelpful thoughts and builds practical skills for exposure and anxiety management, useful for panic, specific fears, and stress.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and daily challenges, then try techniques that fit those needs. Sessions often combine skill practice, gentle exposure steps, and attention to emotional patterns so progress feels steady and understandable.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care easier to fit into life. Video works well for deeper conversations and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer brief, frequent touchpoints or who need support between longer sessions. These options help people keep therapy going around work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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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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