About Zara
Zara Fajardo is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and parenting challenges. She focuses on boosting self-esteem and guiding people through life changes. Her style is direct and compassionate, with an emphasis on practical steps and clearer thinking.
Zara creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through feelings of shame, isolation, or emptiness. She helps clients notice and shift unhelpful thoughts.
Background and approach
She also addresses attachment concerns and issues that come up around adoption and foster care. Her work draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques. In sessions she mixes idea-focused work with concrete strategies clients can try between meetings.
That can include small behavior changes, new ways of communicating, or brief experiments to test different approaches. Zara has seven years of clinical experience in Florida. She has supported adults facing caregiver stress, identity questions, and career-related pressures.
She also has experience with perinatal concerns, including postpartum anxiety and depression, and with adolescents on emotional awareness and coping skills. People who want straightforward guidance and practical tools often find her approach useful. She aims to help clients build resilience, clearer self-understanding, and stronger emotional regulation.
Therapy with her focuses on what needs to change now and how to get there in manageable steps.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Zara uses several evidence-based techniques in accessible ways. Cognitive behavioral approaches focus on identifying and shifting unhelpful thought patterns and building small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Existential-informed work invites questions about meaning, values, and purpose to help people clarify what matters when they face transitions or identity questions. Solution-focused techniques concentrate on practical steps and strengths to create change quickly and efficiently.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Zara collaborates with each person to determine which techniques fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts methods as progress or needs change. This keeps therapy practical and goal-oriented while honoring each person's values.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging make it possible to check in between sessions, share short updates, or work through an immediate coping step without scheduling a full call. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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