About Madeline
Madeline Libretti is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida who uses collaborative, goal-oriented methods in therapy. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. Madeline also supports work on relationship and intimacy issues, addiction concerns, ADHD, grief, and parenting challenges.
Madeline blends client-centered care with evidence-informed techniques. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and the Gottman Method to build practical skills.
How Madeline works
Sessions emphasize clear goals, steady skill-building, and everyday tools people can use between meetings. Her background includes five years of clinical work across hospital and primary care settings. She has experience providing short-term counseling for adults with new medical diagnoses and chronic conditions, plus prior roles supporting pregnant and post-partum women and families in neonatal settings.
More recently she has delivered virtual mental health support and led an online support group during the pandemic. In therapy she helps people talk through attachment, abandonment, and communication problems. She also addresses blended family issues, caregiver stress, co-morbidity, codependency, fertility concerns, guilt, and forgiveness.
Madeline aims to create a practical plan that fits each person’s life. Her sessions make room for honest conversation and skill practice. People who prefer focused, collaborative work will find a straightforward approach.
Madeline meets clients where they are and helps them move toward clearer goals.
Madeline lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Madeline works with
The areas below are the ones Madeline selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then act in ways that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with practical experiments, which helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many everyday struggles. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to manage intense feelings and improve relationships.Madeline treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try techniques that make sense for those goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Together the therapist and client decide what methods fit best for the issues at hand.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and between-session coaching easier to fit into a busy day. These options make it easier to maintain consistency while working on real-life goals.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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