Fabiola Desire , LCSW

Fabiola Desire is a Florida-licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and relationship strain. She speaks English and Haitian Creole and focuses on practical steps that people can use right away. Her style aims to make conversations easy to start and follow through. Fabiola creates a calm space where clients can talk about hard topics without judgment. She helps people build confidence and cope after abuse, loss, or difficult life changes. Sessions often focus on clear goals and small, manageable actions between meetings. Her approach brings together client-centered listening and techniques to change unhelpful thinking. She also uses emotionally-focused work to improve how people relate and connect. Mindfulness skills and motivational interviewing tools are offered when they match a person’s needs. Fabiola has supported people with a wide variety of concerns beyond what is common, including immigration-related stress, issues that affect first responders, compassion fatigue, and multicultural challenges. She also addresses body image, abandonment, and intellectual disability when relevant to an individual’s story. People appreciate a direct, respectful approach that balances empathy with concrete steps. Fabiola encourages clients to set realistic goals and tries to make progress feel achievable. Starting therapy is framed as a process with a therapist who listens and plans alongside the person.

How her approaches translate to online care

Fabiola uses client-centered therapy to prioritize whatever the person brings to session and to shape each meeting around their concerns. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and supporting a person as they choose goals and next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people recognize unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and low mood. It is useful for stress, panic, and upsetting thought patterns. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Fabiola will talk through options and tailor methods to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She treats the choice of tools as collaborative so people can adjust what they try based on how it feels and what helps. Online sessions offer several practical benefits. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction without travel time and are good for deeper conversations. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for quick check-ins, short coaching-style exchanges, or when a flexible schedule is needed. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep continuity between appointments.