About Sherrin
Dr. Sherrin Packer-Rosenthal is a California-based therapist with 40 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, and coping with life changes.
Her style is warm and direct, aimed at helping people take practical steps toward feeling more capable and calm. She creates a space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. Sessions emphasize building skills for everyday life, like repairing relationship ruptures and strengthening parenting confidence.
Background and approach
The goal is for clients to become experts on their own lives rather than dependent on therapy. Dr. Packer-Rosenthal keeps current with developments in psychology, neurology, and biology, and considers research methods when choosing interventions.
She selects techniques that fit each person’s needs and preferences rather than using a single fixed method. This lets her tailor work to specific concerns such as anxiety, trauma recovery, or major life transitions. Her background includes an NIMH Fellowship in Community Mental Health and involvement in founding shelters and children’s support programs.
She trained with clinicians who focus on trauma, attachment, and developmental issues and became a credentialed school counselor to help families navigate IEPs and 504 plans. In sessions she emphasizes self-compassion, practical skills, and gradual change. People who come for help with parenting, chronic stress, or the aftermath of abuse can expect clear goals, respectful feedback, and collaborative problem solving.
How these approaches shape online work
Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes how early relationships shape current connections and teaches ways to repair ruptures and build safety in relationships, which can help with anxiety and parenting struggles. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the client’s lead so people feel heard and supported while they make choices about change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for managing anxiety and stress.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring to sessions. That means techniques can change over time as needs shift and progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, manage childcare or work breaks, and continue care when travel or relocation happens.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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