Sara Dabney, LCSW

Sara Dabney is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Florida with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction, grief, self-esteem, parenting and a range of life changes. She also works with concerns related to adoption and foster care, autism, body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress.

She studied social work at the University of South Florida and completed graduate research related to HIV and PTSD symptomatology. Earlier work included training as a yoga teacher and a license in massage therapy, which shaped a practical interest in mind-body approaches to coping. The bio also notes Title IV funded work with an emphasis on child maltreatment during graduate training.

In sessions she uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness techniques to address thinking patterns and stress responses. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy principles, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills, Motivational Interviewing, and a client-centered stance to help people identify values and take small, workable steps toward change.

She welcomes people of all faiths, gender identities and sexual orientations. Conversations in the room are direct and practical. Expect work on skills for managing emotions, changing unhelpful thought patterns, and planning realistic behavioral steps.

Practically, she helps people talk through coping with illness, addiction, parenting strain, bereavement and difficult relationship moments. For anyone looking for a social worker who combines talk therapy with mindfulness and skills training, she aims to keep sessions straightforward and focused on what to do next.

Therapeutic approaches in online sessions