About Sherry
Sherry Farrell is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California. She brings ten years of clinical experience and a calm, straightforward style to sessions. Sherry focuses on stress and anxiety while also addressing relationship concerns, trauma, grief, and other life challenges.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in Clinical Psychology from San Francisco State University and a Master’s in Counseling Psychology from the University of San Francisco. Early in her career she worked in clinical settings and schools, then taught while raising her children.
Background and approach
That mix of clinical and classroom experience shaped how she sees behavior and relationships. Sherry has worked in clinics and both mainstream and alternative school settings. In those roles she supported children with ADHD, depression, anxiety, conduct issues, and experiences of abuse.
She has also worked with couples and adults facing addiction, infidelity, mood disorders, divorce, PTSD, and life transitions. Her sessions draw from Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Existential approaches. She aims to build a respectful, compassionate relationship and to meet people where they are.
Therapy is practical, with a focus on teamwork and clear steps to manage symptoms and daily challenges. Sherry describes the first step into therapy as a beginning of self-discovery. She works with clients to reduce stress, address anxiety, and develop tools that can hold up over time.
The overall goal is more hope, less overwhelm, and changes people can use in their everyday lives.
Therapeutic approaches that fit online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to talk through anxiety, grief, or relationship stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. Together they will try strategies, check what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions can fit into busy lives. Video calls let the therapist and client see each other's expressions and work through exercises together. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between meetings or to have brief, focused conversations when time is limited.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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