About Sarita
Dr. Sarita Schapiro provides a straightforward, goal-focused approach to common life struggles. She is a Florida psychologist (FL Psychologist PY4914) who offers help for concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, relationship conflict, grief, addictions, and ADHD.
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. She has three years of experience in the context provided here and works with adults seeking practical ways to cope and move forward. Dr.
Schapiro emphasizes methods that aim to produce changes people can use right away.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered listening to make sure concerns are heard. She draws on cognitive-behavioral strategies to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Solution-focused techniques help set short-term, achievable goals.
In therapy sessions she helps people break problems into manageable steps. That can look like building coping skills, restructuring negative thinking, or practicing new communication patterns. She also supports people dealing with family stress, parenting strain, and intimacy-related issues by offering concrete strategies to try between meetings.
Her background includes work in varied settings in Florida and bilingual practice in English and Spanish. The emphasis in sessions is practical: leave with a plan, try it, report back, and adjust. The pace and focus are set collaboratively so each person’s goals guide the work.
People who want brief coaching-oriented meetings alongside deeper work may find this style useful. The focus is on problem solving, skill building, and realistic steps to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience and priorities. It helps people feel heard and shapes goals around what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. This approach helps with anxiety, depression, and many everyday problems by teaching skills to change unhelpful thinking and routines.
Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes small, practical steps toward concrete goals. Sessions often target one or two changes to try between meetings so progress can be measured quickly.
Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about needs, goals, and preferences and pick or combine methods that fit. Treatment is collaborative and adjusted as progress is reported.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let therapists and clients use visual cues and more in-depth conversation. Phone sessions can work when internet bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework prompts, and support between synchronous sessions. These options allow scheduling flexibility and multiple ways to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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