Graduated with honors from Kazakh Pedagogical Institute named after Abay in 1987.Beganteaching at the Karaganda Pedagogical Institute in 1987. Completed a scientific internship at KazPI named after Abai (1990-1991). Graduated from the post-graduate course at KazPI named after Abay. In 1994 she defended her Ph.D. thesis on the topic "Peculiarities of development of character and orientation of the personality of pupils of auxiliary school".Since 1993 she worked as a teacher of the chair of psychology of Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University. In 1999 she was awarded the title of assistant professor of psychology ofthe highest attestation commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan
From 2004 to 2012 she worked as a leading researcher at the Research Institute of Psychology of Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University.
From 2012 to 2014 - Associate Professor of the Department of Psychology and Special Education of the Institute of Magistracy and Doctoral Studies PhD of Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University.
Since 2015 she is an assistant professor of the Chair of Pedagogy and Psychology of Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University.
Teaches disciplines: «Psychology of the Higher School», «Methodology and methods of scientific research», «Methods of teaching psychology», «History of Psychology», «Modern educational technologies» and others.
Actively engaged in research activities, published more than 100 publications, including articles in the journals database Scopus and Web of Science, articles in journals by the non-zero Impact Factor of the Russian Scientific Citation Index.
She is the author of 10 teaching aids and manuals, among which «Psychology of Personality», «Psychology of personality orientation», «Special Psychology», «Fundamentals of psychological and pedagogical research: methodology and methods».
Sarsenbaeva L.O. has developed more than 15 standard programs in the disciplines of specialties "Psychology", "Pedagogy and Psychology", "Defectology".
Awarded with thecertificate of honor of Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical Universityand Medal of exemplary Tutor (2016).