About Libby
Dr. Libby Black is a licensed professional counselor and mental health counselor with 18 years of experience. She offers calm, direct support for people coping with anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, and addiction.
Her tone is practical and empathetic, and she focuses on small steps that add up to real change. Her sessions aim to help people manage overwhelming feelings and improve day-to-day functioning. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients clarify values and take action even when feelings are difficult. Dr. Black pays attention to attachment and how early relationships shape current patterns.
She works with people on communication problems, abandonment concerns, and commitment issues so they can form healthier connections. She also supports those dealing with chronic pain, caregiver stress, divorce and separation, and experiences of domestic violence. Her practice includes attention to sexual diversity and kink-aware topics, and she helps clients navigate identity and intimacy questions without judgment.
She also addresses co-morbidity, antisocial personality concerns, and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder when they affect daily life. Sessions are offered from her New York practice and draw on a blend of client-centered care and evidence-based techniques. Dr.
Black aims to make therapy understandable and useful, focusing on what people can do between sessions to feel steadier and more connected.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. Online work with ACT can help when anxiety or depression makes it hard to take steps in daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and it often uses practical exercises between sessions to build new habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client review goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods together and adjust as needed. This collaborative process helps tailor sessions so techniques fit the person's life and rhythm.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which provide flexible ways to connect. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and interactive exercises. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Messaging and live chat are useful for brief check-ins, coaching, and follow-up between longer sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and changing needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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