About Savita
Savita Azza-Patel is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She focuses on practical steps to manage depression and family-related concerns. Her tone is respectful and straightforward, aimed at people who may be nervous about starting therapy.
Savita brings about ten years of experience in social work across several settings. She has worked in child protection, schools, hospitals, hospice and end-of-life care, and mental health clinics.
Background and approach
That variety shaped a down-to-earth style that favors clear goals and doable strategies. Sessions are built around each person’s needs. She uses client-centered conversations to understand what matters most to you.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are offered to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors when they get in the way of daily life. Her background includes work with people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, caregiver stress, aging and geriatric matters, and serious illness like cancer. She also supports people coping with isolation, guilt, forgiveness, and commitment or control struggles.
Savita aims to tailor discussions and plans for each person. She acknowledges that starting or returning to therapy can feel difficult and approaches that first step with patience. Her Florida license is FL LCSW SW19470 and she conducts sessions in English.
Online approaches that focus on practical change
Client-Centered Therapy centers conversations on what matters most to the person seeking help. The therapist listens closely, reflects concerns back, and helps set goals that fit a person's values and daily life. This approach is useful for clarifying priorities and building a plan that feels true to the individual.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It uses clear exercises and steps to test and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. CBT can be especially helpful for anxiety, depression, and habits that interfere with routines.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and is decided together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what helps most. That collaborative process lets the person guide the pace and focus of sessions.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for a more traditional session feel, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can suit brief updates, quick coping tools, or fitting support into a busy day. These flexible formats make it easier to continue therapy around work, caregiving, or health needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English