About Sheida
Sheida Kalantari is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California who supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks English and Persian and offers a calm, respectful presence for people feeling overwhelmed or stuck. She draws on a client-centered approach, meaning sessions focus on the person's goals and pace.
She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness practices are also part of her work for emotion regulation and staying grounded. Her background includes several years working in county-contracted agencies and on a county crisis assessment team. That work involved meeting people in high-risk situations and providing trauma-informed support.
She uses that experience to shape clear, practical steps in therapy rather than vague advice. In sessions she helps people tackle concrete problems like communication difficulties, codependency, commitment and control issues, caregiver stress, family of origin concerns, and the fallout from divorce or separation. She also addresses feelings of emptiness, guilt, and shame with steady, paced interventions.
Sheida offers a collaborative style that invites people to test what helps and to adjust the approach as needed. She aims to make therapy understandable and relatable, with short-term skills for managing distress and longer-term work on core patterns and personal values.
How Sheida Uses Therapeutic Tools Online
Sheida commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try out small behavioral changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress because it breaks problems into clear steps people can practice between sessions.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness techniques to support emotion regulation and staying present during difficult moments. DBT skills focus on distress tolerance, emotional balance, and improving communication, while mindfulness helps reduce rumination and increase attention to the present.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist talks with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, then adjusts tools and pacing as therapy progresses. This helps make sure sessions feel relevant and workable for daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text-based messaging lets people share between appointments. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Avoidant personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Persian
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