About Shari
Shari Peterson is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) with more than 20 years in mental health. She brings practical experience from community mental health, school settings, and outpatient care. Shari focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and on a wide range of related concerns.
Her work is direct and personal. She uses a strengths-based, relational style that feels warm and genuine. Sessions aim to build on what is already working while naming and changing what gets in the way.
Background and approach
Shari blends several approaches to match each person's needs. She uses Client-Centered Therapy and cognitive-behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also draws on mindfulness, narrative ideas, and motivational interviewing to support lasting change.
People come to her for many issues, including depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, ADHD, anger, relationship and family problems, eating and sleeping concerns, and self-esteem. She has notable experience supporting people who have lived with complex trauma and domestic violence. In sessions, Shari aims to make goals clear and practical.
She helps people try small changes between meetings and checks what works. Her style is collaborative - she listens, offers options, and adapts over time.
How Shari’s Approaches Work Online
Shari uses Client-Centered Therapy to build a respectful, accepting relationship where people feel heard and understood. This approach helps when people need a steady supportive space to sort out feelings and priorities.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many stress-related patterns because it gives clear steps to try between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Shari will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then suggest methods that fit. She checks in and adjusts the plan as work progresses so the approach stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is good for full conversation and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing reflection. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try approaches that suit their rhythms.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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