About Sheri
Sheri Pate is a licensed marriage and family therapist who emphasizes mindfulness and practical tools to help people manage stress and anxiety. She uses simple breathing, guided imagery, and awareness exercises so clients can feel calmer and more in control. Sheri aims to meet people where they are and build on their strengths to create change at a comfortable pace.
She draws on 16 years of clinical experience in California and blends mindfulness with cognitive and interpersonal techniques.
Background and approach
Those approaches are used to help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, anger, and the strain of life changes. Sheri also supports people coping with trauma, grief, chronic health concerns, and caregiver stress. Sheri has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from California Lutheran University.
Her background includes leading yoga, meditation, and mindfulness groups across the country from 2011 to 2022, both in person and online. Her sessions often include guided relaxation, visualization, and exercises that connect body awareness to emotions. She created a simple awareness card game called Witness Cards to help people notice patterns and set small goals for change.
Sheri focuses on clear, doable strategies rather than jargon. She helps people build confidence to try new ways of thinking and behaving, and she works collaboratively to set practical steps that fit each person’s life.
Online approaches that combine mindfulness and practical tools
Sheri uses mindfulness therapy to bring attention to the present moment through breathing, body scans, and simple awareness exercises. These practices can reduce reactivity and help people manage anxious thoughts and daily stressors.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thought patterns and small behavior changes that can shift mood and sleep. CBT helps people break unhelpful thinking cycles and try new coping strategies that are easy to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, life demands, and preferences, then tailor exercises and session structure together. Adjustments are made over time so the work fits the client’s pace and needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face work and use of guided relaxation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can fit quick check-ins or ongoing support during busy days. These options help people fit therapy into work, family, and caregiving routines while keeping tools and exercises readily available.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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