About Gazaria
Gazaria Williams is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who uses a person-focused approach to help people manage hard moments. She emphasizes listening first and building on each persons strengths. Her manner is steady and practical, aimed at helping people take small steps toward change.
With 24 years of experience, she draws on a range of methods to address worries about relationships, mood, and daily stress. Common concerns she works with include anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, and self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also supports people navigating career strain, parenting challenges, and intimacy-related issues. Her practice includes working with people facing ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, body image issues, eating and sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue. Gazaria also helps clients who are dealing with adoption and foster care matters, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and blending family dynamics.
She pays attention to how life events shape feelings and behavior. In sessions she uses client-centered techniques alongside cognitive-behavioral tools and emotionally-focused methods. She also brings perspectives from existential and Jungian approaches when they fit the clients goals.
The focus is practical: identify patterns, try small changes, and check what helps. Gazaria sees people from Florida and beyond and offers conversations in English. She welcomes international clients and uses video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can choose what works for them.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the persons perspective at the center of sessions. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients build on their own strengths to solve problems. This approach supports people coping with grief, relationship strain, parenting worries, and general life stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that maintain distress. It uses straightforward exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful habits. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, sleep or eating problems, and managing mood conditions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on the experience of emotion and how it shows up in important relationships. It can help people understand attachment and intimacy-related issues and improve how they communicate feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That decision is revisited as progress is made so the plan can change if needed.
Online therapy here is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation while phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited or you prefer no camera. Live chat and messaging can fit quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let people pick the format that fits their routine.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English