About Sara
Sara Dabney is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Florida who blends practical therapy methods with mindfulness. She draws on five years of clinical experience to help people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and issues around identity and relationships. Sara writes plainly and focuses on small, doable changes that can make daily life feel steadier.
She trained at the University of South Florida and completed a Master of Social Work.
Background and approach
While studying she worked on projects related to trauma and post-traumatic stress and held a Title IV-funded emphasis in child maltreatment. That background informs how she listens for safety and coping needs in sessions. In session she uses cognitive behavioral techniques alongside mindfulness-based practices.
She also applies client-centered principles and motivational interviewing to help people find what matters most to them. Therapy sessions often focus on skills you can use between meetings, such as breathing practices, short behavior experiments, and clearer communication strategies. Sara helps with a wide range of concerns including phobias, depression, addictions, self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, and coping with major life changes.
She works with people affected by adoption and foster care, chronic illness, and sexual subcultures like BDSM and kink when those topics come up in therapy. Sessions are offered in English and delivered remotely by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sara emphasizes collaboration - she helps clients set small goals, track progress, and adjust the plan as needs change.
Therapy approaches that work well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people identify what matters to them and take small committed steps toward those values. It uses short exercises and behavior experiments to reduce avoidance and build a livable routine. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical techniques to shift unhelpful patterns and manage anxiety, phobias, and mood problems. Mindfulness Therapy trains simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and increase moment-to-moment awareness, which is useful for stress, trauma symptoms, and persistent worry.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sara collaborates with clients to choose or combine methods based on their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts techniques so the plan stays helpful as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are suited to longer sessions and skills demonstrations. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to use methods that match each person’s needs.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- 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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