About Sherie
Sherie Dechter is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with thirty years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship challenges. She focuses on practical steps that reduce overwhelm and help people feel more steady. Her style is warm and straightforward so callers can relax and talk honestly about what’s hard right now.
She uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. Sessions often include clear, manageable exercises that address thoughts, behavior, and connection with others.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how family history, attachment, and communication patterns shape current struggles. Sherie has a long history supporting people through loss, trauma, parenting stress, and career or life transitions. She also helps with intimacy concerns, self-esteem, and social anxiety.
Her background includes work with adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, fertility concerns, and relationship jealousy. These topics often come together, and she helps people untangle them step by step. In sessions she aims to create a friendly, safe-feeling space where people feel heard.
Therapy is collaborative and she helps clients set goals they can use outside of sessions. Many of her tools come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mixed with attachment-focused work. People who come to her usually want clear guidance and practical tools, along with honest emotional support.
Sherie works from California and offers session formats that fit different schedules and needs.
How her approaches fit into online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then move toward a life that reflects their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and issues where avoidance has become a pattern. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical exercises to change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, which can reduce anxiety, low mood, and problem behaviors. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns in close relationships and communication, and it can help with intimacy, parenting, and family dynamics.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sherie will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those aims. That process is collaborative and may mix techniques so sessions stay practical and relevant to daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use body language and tone, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can suit short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or travel and to continue work between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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