Sabrina Longley, LCSW

(She/Her/Hers)

(Ages 15+)

(Limited In-Person Sessions in Cary, NC/Telehealth offered to North Carolina residents)

Specialities:

Neurodivergence | Communication Skills and Boundaries | BIPOC | LGBTQIA+ | Fat Liberation | Life Transitions | Depression | Autism| ADHD
Sabrina Longley, LCSWA

"I was getting tired of being in an endless succession of things called 'the fight of a lifetime.' Just once, I'd like to have the fight of a Tuesday afternoon.”
~ Seanan McGuire

Get in touch with Sabrina Longley, LCSW-A

Accepted Insurance Providers: BCBS, AETNA, Medcost

Rates / Fees:
$175 Initial Intake Appointment
$150 60-Minute Session
Limited $50 – $150 Sliding Scale Sessions

Specialties

I specialize in therapy for individuals aged 15+ for:

My Approach & Philosophy

Fat, Black, Neurodivergent, Queer.  This is your safe space to feel seen, heard, validated, affirmed, and celebrated.  Experiencing oppression, a lack of safety in who you are, living in a world deeply not made for you.  I understand how painful this can be, and I also understand that it’s possible to build your own world. Surrounded by the right people, and with a profound sense of self-worth.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to help people, though I struggled with knowing how. I admired my own therapist though struggled to see myself as being able to give advice when I felt so disconnected, alone, and out of control myself. As an adopted, fat, Black, undiagnosed Neurodivergent young woman with a deeply unsupportive family, I worried I could never help anyone in the way that I had needed help.

 

Despite those insecurities, psychology was deeply interesting to me from the moment I took my first psychology class in high school. “This is interesting enough to study for four more years,” I thought to myself. In college, I learned more about Neurodivergence, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and my identity as a Black woman. Learning Black psychology at an HBCU was deeply impactful in building my identity and helping me to feel close to my community.

 

Shortly after graduation, I was diagnosed ADHD (as well as finding out about a math learning disability). As I learned more about myself, I focused my graduate studies on populations and modalities that connected with my own lived experience. I felt more and more as if I could help, in part because I knew what it was to feel hopeless, isolated, and have such big emotions they felt they could blot out the sun. I finally found how I could help people. I could listen, and validate and teach the skills that helped me build my life worth living.

In therapy, I am an authentic, open, direct, funny and caring support on your journey. You know your life, your feelings, and your experiences. I know the skills and can view your life in an unconditionally positive and validating way. As we walk together on this journey of self-exploration there will be laughs, and sighs, and tears, and I hope, growth.

“Overextending myself is not stretching myself... Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare."

~ Audre Lorde

You Deserve to Feel Great. I’m Here to Help.