Sarai Escarment , LMHC

Sarai Escarment is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 15 years of clinical experience. She centers her work on restoring hope and helping people build practical skills to manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma, and a wide range of life challenges. Sarai works with individuals, couples, families, children, and adolescents, offering support for relationship and family conflict, grief, intimacy concerns, parenting, sleep and eating issues, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and career or life transitions.

Sarai takes an eclectic, empirically validated approach to counseling, drawing on proven methods to tailor treatment to each person’s needs. She creates a warm, nurturing environment that encourages clients to take on challenges that promote growth. Her clinical focus also includes compassion fatigue, coping strategies, and coaching to boost resilience and self-esteem.

With specialized experience supporting young people who face behavioral issues and learning differences, she blends practical tools and affirmations to help clients regain a sense of control. As an LMHC, Sarai brings professional training in mental health assessment and treatment while emphasizing collaboration and client strengths throughout the therapeutic process.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on recognizing and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It is useful for managing anxiety, depression, stress, and many day-to-day coping challenges by teaching practical skills and strategies. DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, blends acceptance and change strategies to help with emotional regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance - it can be particularly helpful for intense emotions, relationship issues, and impulse-related concerns. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-directed method that enhances a person’s own motivation to change, often used when addressing addictions, ambivalence, or readiness for new behaviors.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Sarai collaborates with each person to determine which methods fit their goals, preferences, and life circumstances, adapting techniques as progress unfolds. This collaborative stance helps ensure therapy aligns with individual needs and values.

Online therapy offers flexible access to licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, family, and other commitments, and they allow continuity of care when in-person visits are difficult. For many, remote sessions provide a practical way to engage consistently in treatment while using evidence-based approaches tailored to their situation.