About Shari
Shari Schaffer is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of clinical experience in Texas. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and the fallout from trauma or abuse. Her approach is direct and respectful, aimed at helping folks find practical ways forward.
Shari draws on several therapy styles to shape each session around a person’s needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept difficult feelings and commit to meaningful actions.
How Shari works
Client-centered methods create a warm, listening space where the client’s goals guide the work. Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce reactivity and increase focus in everyday life. Her background includes work in clinical and educational settings with issues such as parenting concerns, career stress, ADHD, and addiction.
She also has experience supporting people coping with grief, end-of-life concerns, and complex responses to trauma. Sessions are collaborative and paced according to what feels manageable for the person in front of her. Shari aims to be practical and interactive in sessions.
She helps people clarify values, practice new skills, and make behavioral changes that matter. Treatment plans are tailored and adjusted over time to match progress and changing priorities. People who want a compassionate, straightforward therapist often find her style helpful.
She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and a belief that growth happens through the therapeutic relationship.
Shari lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Shari works with
The areas below are the ones Shari selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How her therapeutic approaches translate online
Shari often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. That approach is useful when people are coping with anxiety, depression, or tough life choices. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on empathic listening and following the client’s pace so people feel heard and understood before making changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then she will recommend techniques and adapt them over time so the plan fits what you need and how you like to work.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match daily life. Video is good for fuller conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is low, live chat and text let people check in between sessions or have shorter interactions. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, family, and travel while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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