About Desarae
Desarae Herard is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 11 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people regain a sense of control when life feels overwhelming. Her work centers on straightforward feedback and practical strategies people can try between sessions.
She meets clients where they are and listens first. From that starting point she offers interventions that fit each person's situation. Sessions aim to build skills for coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Her approach draws from client-centered therapy, which emphasizes understanding the person's experience, and cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings. That mix helps people tackle worries, relationship struggles, self-esteem concerns, and patterns that get in the way of daily life. Herard trained in Florida and lives there after moving from the northeast for college.
She earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Jacksonville University in 2006 and a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling from Capella University in 2011. Her background includes work in crisis settings and in outpatient environments. In sessions she focuses on teaching practical skills for managing emotions and making steady progress.
She helps people work through addictions, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, intimacy concerns, and bipolar-related challenges with clear, step-by-step support.
How her approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding the person's viewpoint and building a strong, respectful working relationship. It helps people feel heard and guides sessions around their priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often supports work on anxiety, depression, and coping skills.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. She works collaboratively with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means adapting techniques over time until the plan matches what the person wants to achieve.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let visual cues guide conversations and allow deeper work when schedules make in-person appointments hard. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, reminders, and short problem-solving between sessions. These options help people maintain continuity and fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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