About Sharifa
Dr. Sharifa Armorer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 26 years of practice in New York. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and addiction.
She also supports concerns around relationships, intimacy, grief, sleep, parenting, and workplace stress. Her style is direct and goal-focused. She blends practical therapy tools with holistic ideas drawn from her broader studies.
Sessions aim to identify what is getting in the way and build clear steps forward.
How Sharifa works
Dr. Armorer draws on emotionally focused methods to look at feelings in relationships and trauma-focused tools to address painful memories. She uses mindfulness practices to bring calmness into daily life and motivational interviewing to encourage change.
Solution-focused strategies help clients set concrete, short-term goals and track progress. She approaches care with warmth and partnership. Clients outline the goals they want, and she helps craft a plan that fits those aims.
The work is collaborative, with attention to practical shifts people can try between sessions. Her background includes long-term clinical practice and complementary approaches that some clients find helpful alongside traditional therapy. Dr.
Armorer frames progress as a series of small, steady changes rather than one big fix. She aims to make each session useful and actionable.
Sharifa lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Sharifa works with
The areas below are the ones Sharifa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW-R |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name strong feelings and how those feelings affect close relationships. Online sessions can provide a calm space to practice new ways of talking and responding to loved ones. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing techniques to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and mood. These practices work well over video or phone because they can be guided in real time and repeated between sessions. Motivational Interviewing focuses on the client’s own reasons for change and uses supportive questions to build motivation. It is useful for goals like reducing substance use, improving work habits, or taking steps toward meaningful life changes.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will partner with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is revisited as progress is made, so methods can be adjusted over time in collaboration.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break during a workday. Live chat can be useful for short check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing, brief communication between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent despite busy schedules or distance.
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