About Sheriffa
Dr. Sheriffa Gallwey helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, and a wide range of life disruptions. She is Dr.
Sheriffa Gallwey, a licensed social worker with 25 years of clinical experience in New York. She uses straightforward, practical methods to help people cope and move forward. Her sessions are supportive and collaborative.
She listens first, then works with each person to set clear goals and small milestones. Treatment focuses on everyday changes that can reduce symptoms and improve relationships over time.
Background and approach
Dr. Gallwey draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods and dialectical behavior ideas, alongside attachment and client-centered perspectives. That means she pays attention to thoughts and behaviors, emotion regulation skills, and how past attachment patterns influence current relationships.
Mindfulness techniques are used to build awareness and calm in the moment. She has worked with concerns including trauma and abuse, addiction, bipolar disorder, parenting and caregiver stress, eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, and identity issues including LGBT matters. Additional focus areas include abandonment, blended family challenges, infidelity, and coping after disaster.
Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging so people can fit therapy into their schedule. Dr. Gallwey aims to make progress manageable by breaking goals into small steps and celebrating progress along the way.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Gallwey commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify thought patterns that drive anxiety and to practice new behaviors that reduce distress. She also draws on dialectical behavior ideas to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that help in intense moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose and adapt methods based on their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and shifting course when something isn’t working for the person.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and deeper dialogue. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, and timely coaching between sessions. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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