About Sarita
Dr. Sarita Schapiro is a Florida psychologist who offers direct, practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She speaks English and Spanish and focuses on clear steps people can try between sessions.
Her work centers on helping clients manage relationships, grief, depression, addictions, and other everyday problems that interfere with life. Dr. Schapiro uses straightforward conversation to turn problems into specific goals.
She draws on client-centered techniques to listen closely and build on what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioral methods are used to identify patterns of thinking and to practice new ways of coping. Solution-focused ideas shape sessions so people leave with small, achievable strategies. Sessions often concentrate on a next step someone can try before the next meeting.
This keeps progress concrete and measurable over time. Her background is in clinical psychology, licensed in Florida as FL Psychologist PY4914. She has three years of experience working in settings that include clinics and independent practice.
She brings that clinical background to work with issues like trauma, intimacy challenges, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stress, and ADHD-related concerns. In sessions she prioritizes clear communication and practical tools. People can expect collaborative planning, practice of coping skills, and regular review of what works.
The aim is to strengthen day-to-day functioning and reduce acute distress with manageable steps.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Dr. Schapiro uses client-centered work to build a collaborative relationship where the person's priorities guide each session. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting what matters most, and helping people name practical goals that feel important to them.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. In CBT clients learn to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and practice small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or manage mood swings.
Solution-focused therapy rounds out the work by zeroing in on clear, short-term steps. Sessions often end with an experiment or action a person can try before the next meeting to test what helps and what doesn’t.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each client to pick or combine methods based on the person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative decision is revisited as progress is made and circumstances change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video is helpful when face-to-face interaction matters, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging can suit brief check-ins, coaching notes, or times when typing feels more comfortable. These options aim to increase flexibility and access while keeping the focus on practical steps and outcomes.
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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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