About Sherrie
Sherrie Kuns-Mackert is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 30 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety and those dealing with anger, depression, or compassion fatigue. Her approach is straightforward and respectful, aimed at making the first steps feel manageable for someone who may be worried or unsure.
She listens for what matters to each person and adapts conversations to match their needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical ways to manage symptoms like memory and concentration problems and on building steps that fit daily life. Sherrie pays attention to patterns such as attachment and abandonment concerns and how they affect relationships and behavior. Her work also addresses ADHD-related focus issues, chronic pain or illness, and substance use concerns.
She brings experience working with first responder issues, dissociation, and emotional regulation challenges such as impulsivity and disruptive mood patterns. The goal is to reduce immediate distress and create tools that help over time. Sherrie aims to treat people with sensitivity and compassion while keeping the work grounded and useful.
She tailors treatment plans to each person rather than using one fixed method. That means sessions can look different depending on goals, whether the need is to manage day-to-day stress or to work through deeper attachment and communication problems. People who choose her work with clear, practical steps and a steady, experienced guide.
Her long experience in California informs a calm, direct style that focuses on what will help next.
Approaches that fit online care
Sherrie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear strategies people can use between sessions. One common approach she uses teaches practical coping skills to manage anxiety and stress, such as breathing exercises, activity planning, and step-by-step problem solving to reduce overwhelm. These skills help when worries or panic feel intense and when daily functioning is affected.Another approach emphasizes attention and organization strategies for people with concentration or ADHD-related difficulties. This involves breaking tasks into small steps, building routines, and experimenting with simple adjustments to improve focus and memory. It is useful when impulsivity or concentration problems interfere with work or home life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work with each person to identify goals and try methods that match those needs. Together they track what helps and adjust the plan over time so sessions stay practical and relevant.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video lets you work face-to-face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good shorter check-in. Messaging and live chat allow ongoing contact and quick reflections between sessions. These formats increase flexibility and make consistent care more accessible for people juggling work, caregiving, or health concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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