About Shari
Shari Schaffer is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Texas with 15 years of clinical and educational experience. She has worked with people facing depression, anxiety, stress, ADHD, and relationship struggles. She also has substantial experience supporting those who have endured physical trauma or emotional abuse.
Her style is warm and interactive. She listens with respect and responds with compassion. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs rather than a one-size plan.
Background and approach
Shari uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage mood, motivation, and difficult life changes. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness to help people notice what matters and take small actions. She uses client-centered and narrative techniques to keep the work grounded in each person's story.
Work in sessions often looks like clear goal-setting, learning small skills, and trying out new ways of handling everyday problems. She may use motivational interviewing when people are wrestling with change or addiction concerns. Treatment plans are adjusted as progress and priorities shift.
Shari focuses on helping people improve communication, cope with grief and loss, navigate career and parenting strain, and address intimacy or sexual trauma concerns. Her aim is to help people build more satisfying relationships, greater self-understanding, and better day-to-day coping.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and take meaningful action even when feelings are strong. Online ACT focuses on short exercises, values work, and practical experiments to try between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and emphasizes empathy and acceptance, helping people feel heard while they sort out decisions and relationships during regular sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them over time so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversations; phone calls can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can be used for brief check-ins, updates, or when writing helps process thoughts. These options make it easier to schedule consistent work and to practice skills in everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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