Sarai Escarment, LMHC

Sarai Escarment is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling stuck by teaching practical skills and offering steady support. Her work is straightforward and goal oriented, aimed at improving day-to-day life.

Sarai helps people who struggle with anxiety, depression, stress, and addictions. She also supports those facing relationship and family conflict, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges with intimacy or parenting. Her background includes work with eating and sleeping concerns, anger and self-esteem issues, bipolar disorder, ADHD, career strain, and compassion fatigue.

Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness techniques alongside motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods. Sessions focus on learning tools, trying new behaviors, and tracking progress. Conversations are practical and paced to each person’s needs.

Sarai creates a calm, encouraging space that invites honest talk and gradual change. She emphasizes collaboration and clear steps people can use between sessions. The goal is to build coping skills, improve relationships, and restore a sense of control in daily life.

People who prefer a direct, skills-based style often find her approach useful. She values small, consistent changes and helps clients turn those into lasting habits. When someone is ready to make a change, she offers a steady, practical path forward.

Using CBT and Mindfulness Online to Build Practical Skills

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people break unhelpful thinking patterns and try concrete behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. Those skills are useful for managing strong emotions and improving relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and try methods together to see what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide which techniques to use and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and exercises that use screen sharing. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, between-session coaching, and progress tracking. These options let people fit sessions around work, caregiving, and daily life while practicing skills consistently.