Madeline Libretti

Madeline Libretti, LCSW, offers collaborative, goal-focused therapy that centers each person’s needs. She uses straightforward, practical methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. Sessions aim to build skills that fit daily life and address relationship, parenting, and identity concerns in clear steps.

Madeline brings five years of clinical experience in hospital and primary care settings. Early in her career she provided mental health support for pregnant and postpartum people, neonatal intensive care families, and adults in medical and emergency settings. More recently she has worked in a primary care clinic offering short-term counseling for adults facing new medical diagnoses, chronic conditions, or emotional strain.

Her style is collaborative and client-centered. She mixes approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and the Gottman Method to match what each person needs. In sessions she helps clients set concrete goals, practice coping skills, and track small changes over time.

Madeline also has experience with grief, trauma, addiction concerns, and parenting stress. She supports people dealing with family conflict, attachment and abandonment issues, fertility and caregiver stress, and the emotional effects of major life events. The aim is practical progress rather than labels.

Madeline practices in Florida and provides therapy in English. She emphasizes a team approach - the therapist and client working together to find routines and strategies that actually fit a person’s life.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Madeline commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her sessions. ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. CBT targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, mood, and sleep problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to identify which methods match their goals and daily life, and adjust the plan as progress unfolds. This means clients help set priorities and try techniques to see what fits.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people practice skills in real-world routines and bring concrete problems from daily life into the session for troubleshooting.