About Sarita
Dr. Sarita Schapiro uses a client-centered, practical approach to help people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on clear goals and steps people can try between sessions.
Dr. Sarita Schapiro is a Florida psychologist (FL Psychologist PY4914) who offers therapy in English and Spanish. She works by listening first and then helping people set small, realistic goals.
Sessions often include problem-solving and strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking and habits.
Background and approach
Solution-focused techniques are used to identify what’s already working and build on it. Her background includes three years of post-licensure experience in clinical settings. That experience informs her emphasis on straightforward tools for everyday problems like parenting stress, sleep difficulties, or relationship tensions.
People come with a wide range of concerns such as grief, depression, addictions, trauma, eating worries, and anger. In sessions she aims for practical outcomes. Clients leave with specific ideas to try until the next meeting.
Work might include communication practice, behavior changes, or steps to address career or self-esteem challenges. She also supports people dealing with family origins, caregiving stress, codependency, commitment worries, and issues around separation or divorce. The focus is on improving daily functioning and coping with life changes.
Dr. Schapiro combines clear conversation, goal-setting, and hands-on techniques so people can feel more in control of their choices. Her bilingual ability allows therapy in English or Spanish.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects concerns, and helps people discover their own solutions to stress, relationship strain, or grief.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. Online CBT sessions often include brief exercises and homework to change negative thinking patterns that contribute to anxiety, sleep problems, or low mood.
Solution-focused therapy zeroes in on small changes that make a difference. The therapist helps identify strengths and past successes, then sets short-term goals to build momentum in areas such as parenting, work issues, or coping with life transitions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and adapt methods as work progresses. Together they choose techniques that fit the person's needs and schedule rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can support short check-ins, and messaging helps track progress between sessions. These options offer flexibility for meetings, homework review, and ongoing support.
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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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