About Sarah
Sarah Riggs is a Maryland clinician with medical and counseling credentials who brings three decades of experience to her work. She focuses on practical help for people coping with addiction, mood concerns, ADHD, anxiety, and life changes. Her style is respectful and down-to-earth, and she aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable.
She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to shape straightforward, individualized plans. Sessions focus on clear goals, skills you can use between meetings, and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored to each person's needs and paced to match what feels doable. Sarah has a long history helping people with drug and alcohol issues and related challenges such as grief, anger, and trauma. She also works with mood disorders including bipolar and depression, and addresses workplace stress, social anxiety, and multicultural concerns.
Her experience includes supporting veterans and people facing personality or post-traumatic stress concerns. Expect a collaborative approach where priorities are agreed on together. She emphasizes coping strategies, emotion regulation, and problem-solving skills that fit day-to-day life.
The goal is to build resilience and clearer routines that reduce overwhelm. Sessions can include talking through triggers, practicing new behaviors, and planning realistic next steps. Sarah aims to help people feel more in control of everyday demands and better able to handle setbacks.
Her work is grounded in respect, sensitivity, and steady practical support.
Approaches that guide online care
Evidence-based techniques form the heart of her work. One common approach teaches concrete coping skills and behavioral strategies that help manage cravings, mood swings, and daily routines; this is useful for addictions, ADHD-related challenges, and depression. Another approach focuses on processing trauma and reducing its impact on current life by helping people identify triggers, practice grounding skills, and build safer daily patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She works together with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts plans as progress is made. That collaboration helps ensure sessions stay relevant and practical for everyday life.
Online therapy makes regular care easier to fit into a busy schedule. Video calls let you see facial cues and share materials, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or brief skill practice between sessions. These options offer flexibility for follow-up, shorter check-ins, or steady support when in-person visits are hard to schedule.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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