Sarah Riggs, LCPC

Sarah Riggs is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Maryland. She brings three decades of experience to sessions and focuses on helping people who face addiction, mood challenges, anxiety, and major life changes. She works with compassion and treats each person with respect.

Her approach is practical and tailored. Conversations and plans are shaped around what each person needs right now. She helps people identify patterns, set realistic goals, and try manageable steps toward change.

Sarah has long experience supporting people through grief, trauma, and anger. She also helps with self-esteem, relationship concerns, ADHD, and workplace stress. Her background includes work with substance use and with issues related to military service and veterans.

Sessions tend to emphasize clear, everyday language. Expect straightforward talk, problem-solving, and coping strategies you can use between meetings. Sarah encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes.

She frames therapy as a partnership. The person in therapy helps set priorities and tests what works. Over time the aim is to build stronger routines and better ways to handle stress and triggers.

How Therapeutic Approaches Guide Online Work

Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on practical skills and structured conversations. One common focus is coping-skills work, which teaches concrete tools to manage anxiety, mood swings, cravings, and stress. These tools can include breathing and grounding exercises, routine-building, and step-by-step plans to handle difficult moments.

Another frequent element is trauma-informed care, which means moving at a pace that feels safe and using strategies to reduce overwhelm. This approach helps people who have experienced past harm to rebuild tolerance for feeling upset and to learn new ways to respond when memories or triggers appear.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist partners with each person to identify goals, try methods, and adjust plans based on what helps. That collaborative process aims to match techniques to the person’s needs and preferences rather than using a one-size-fits-all program.

If you are considering online work, confirm which session formats are offered before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Many people find online options easier to fit into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. Discussing practical arrangements during the first session will help make therapy a workable part of daily life.