Shari Schaffer

Shari Schaffer is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in Texas with more than 15 years of clinical and educational experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship trouble, parenting challenges, depression, and anger. Her work also reaches those coping with trauma, addictions, ADHD, grief, and questions about life purpose.

Shari keeps sessions warm and interactive. She treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She emphasizes that healing happens through the therapeutic relationship and a shared effort toward change.

Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered methods, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and existential ideas. She also uses narrative therapy techniques to help people reframe their stories and find new ways forward.

In sessions she tailors the plan to each person's needs. Conversations focus on practical steps, clearer values, and skills people can use between meetings. She balances listening with straightforward guidance and problem-solving.

People turn to her for help with control issues, communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, hoarding, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and intimacy-related issues. She also supports those managing bipolar symptoms, mood and personality disorders, post-traumatic stress, self-harm urges, and sexual assault recovery.

Shari invites those ready to make changes to begin a conversation. She will work with each person to identify goals and outline next steps for therapy.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking committed steps toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, stress, anger, and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy centers on an empathic, nonjudgmental listening stance where the person leads the pace and focus of change; it supports self-awareness and confidence. Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and build motivation, which can be useful for addictions, ambivalence, and behavior shifts.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean combining elements from different approaches and adjusting over time based on what helps most.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit meetings into a busy life, shorten travel time, and allow for brief check-ins when a quick follow-up is useful. It can also let people work from a quieter spot, use fewer technical resources, or avoid being on camera if that helps them engage. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, client-centered methods, and motivational interviewing effectively in remote sessions when the format matches a person's needs.