About Farida
Farida Scriber helps people facing stress and anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and LGBT-related concerns. She also supports those dealing with grief, depression, compassion fatigue, and addiction. Farida writes in clear, direct ways and aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable for someone taking the first step.
She keeps sessions simple and focused. Farida creates a calm space where clients can say what is on their mind without judgment.
Background and approach
Conversations often include practical ways to cope, step-by-step problem solving, and attention to the emotional experiences behind behaviors. Farida draws on ten years of professional experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Georgia. That background gives her familiarity with a wide range of mood and stress-related issues, panic and social anxiety, and longer term concerns such as attachment and self-image.
In sessions she addresses communication problems, control issues, and the strain that caregiving can create. She also works with people facing life transitions like divorce and separation, or wrestling with guilt, shame, and forgiveness. The work balances emotional understanding with practical skills to move forward.
Farida offers help in English, French, and Haitian Creole and sees clients both in Georgia and internationally. She recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and helps people set realistic steps and short-term goals. Your first conversations will focus on what matters most to you and what small changes would feel useful next.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many clients find a mix of practical strategies and emotional work useful. One common approach focuses on building coping skills for anxiety and panic through step-by-step strategies and gradual exposure to feared situations. This helps reduce intense reactions and increase confidence in daily life.Another approach centers on processing traumatic experiences and their impact on current feelings and relationships. Sessions encourage safe storytelling, emotional naming, and learning new ways to respond to triggers so daily routines feel more manageable.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Over the first few sessions they will check what helps and adjust the plan together.
Online therapy makes this flexible. Video calls allow fuller conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat provides a short check-in during a busy day, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping treatment consistent.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English, French, Haitian Creole