About Judith
Judith 'Judi' Shaffer offers calm, steady support for people facing stress and anxiety. She speaks plainly, listens closely, and helps clients take the first step toward feeling more able to cope. Judi is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 29 years of experience.
Judi focuses on everyday pressures like worry, low self-esteem, and depression. She also helps people navigate relationship struggles and major life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to create a nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through. Her style mixes practical tools with deeper reflection. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas help identify unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Client-centered work keeps the conversation focused on each person's values and goals. Judi also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time. Solution-focused strategies can help when someone wants quick, concrete steps to move forward.
Together these approaches give a balance of short-term relief and longer-term insight. Clients can expect clear, down-to-earth guidance and a pace set by their needs. Judi encourages small, achievable changes and supports people as they try new ways of coping.
Her aim is to make therapy useful and understandable for daily life.
Approach-driven online therapy for anxiety and stress
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person's concerns. The therapist creates space for people to talk about what matters most and helps them set goals based on their values and priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It offers practical exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and build coping skills that reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. That means trying strategies together and adjusting them over time based on what helps.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and fit into a short break. Chat or text can be useful for brief check-ins or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and reach support from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- California, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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