About Sheri
Sheri Pate is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who draws on mindfulness and mind-body practices to help people manage stress and difficult emotions. She emphasizes acceptance of where someone is right now and offers simple, practical tools for coping. Sheri’s approach is calm and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people find more ease and enjoyment in daily life.
She regularly uses mindfulness exercises, guided imagery, and deep relaxation to help people become more aware of their patterns.
Background and approach
Those practices are used to reduce anxious or racing thoughts, improve sleep, and create space for new ways of responding. Sheri also incorporates cognitive behavioral ideas and attachment-based thinking to address how relationships and habits affect wellbeing. With 16 years of clinical experience and training in counseling psychology, Sheri blends visualization and somatic awareness with conversational therapy.
She has led mindfulness, yoga, and meditation groups in person and online, and uses those skills to support focus, stress management, and emotional regulation. She created a simple awareness card game called Witness Cards to make self-reflection easier and less intimidating. Sheri’s work can be helpful for people coping with ADHD, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, parenting strain, and life transitions.
She pays attention to strengths and collaboration, helping people move toward meaningful goals at a comfortable pace. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Sheri brings cultural awareness to sessions and aims to meet clients where they are. She practices in California as an LMFT and offers conversational, skill-based support that centers each person’s lived experience.
Using attachment work and CBT in online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people notice how early relationship patterns shape current connections. It focuses on emotions and safety in relationships so clients can change how they relate and reduce repeated conflict or distance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical steps to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and difficulties with focus or sleep. Mindfulness Therapy trains present-moment attention and simple body-based practices to calm the nervous system and reduce reactivity.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Sheri will talk with each person about goals, strengths, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which combination of attachment work, CBT, or mindfulness exercises fits best and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work with these methods. Video calls allow guided imagery and relaxation while keeping visual cues in view. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or a good option when less bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients share updates between sessions or use brief coaching-style support. These options make it easier to practice skills consistently and fit therapy into a busy week.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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