Shari Schaffer, LMFT

Shari Schaffer is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in Texas with 15 years of clinical and educational experience. She has worked with people facing depression, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, career stress, ADHD, and obsessive-compulsive concerns. Her work includes supporting people who have experienced physical trauma or emotional abuse.

Shari uses practical, spoken therapy rather than jargon. Sessions tend to be interactive and focused on clear goals. She listens for what matters to each person and helps them identify small, manageable changes they can try between sessions.

Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered methods, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative ideas. Those tools are used to help people notice unhelpful patterns, clarify values, and take steps that align with what they want. She also brings experience with trauma-focused and solution-oriented techniques for people coping with past hurt.

Sessions often include talking through specific situations, trying new communication habits, and practicing mindfulness or values-based exercises. She pays attention to control issues, forgiveness, guilt, shame, and intimacy-related concerns when they come up. Work may also address grief, addiction-related patterns, and boundary-setting around career and family pressures.

People who reach out can expect steady, direct conversation about practical next steps. Shari encourages clients to set realistic short-term goals and to track what changes help. She asks clients to be active in shaping the plan so therapy fits daily life and responsibilities.

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