About Sherie
Sherie Dechter is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California. She has 30 years of experience helping people through stress, grief, relationship struggles, ADHD concerns, and other life challenges. Sherie aims to make sessions calm and straightforward so parents can focus on clear next steps.
Sherie uses practical talk and problem-solving to get through hard moments. She helps people name what matters, try small changes, and build habits that fit real life.
Background and approach
Sessions often include tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy combined with a warm, client-centered approach. Her background includes many years working with adults around trauma, family dynamics, adoption and foster care issues, and parenting concerns. That experience informs how she notices patterns and suggests different ways to respond in relationships and caregiving roles.
Sherie pays attention to attachment and communication styles when relationship issues come up. She also draws on Imago Relationship Therapy ideas to help partners talk differently and repair conflict. Clients can expect clear feedback, practical exercises, and gentle encouragement to try new ways of relating.
Throughout her career she has focused on helping people feel more capable and less overwhelmed. Sherie works collaboratively, listening first and then offering steps that feel doable. She welcomes conversations about life purpose, self-worth, career stress, women's issues, and caregiver fatigue.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take steps that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and for people managing ADHD-related challenges that affect daily routines.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It can help people understand why they react strongly in close relationships and try new ways of connecting. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental conversation where the therapist follows the client's lead and helps them clarify what they want to change.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sherie will collaborate with clients to choose or blend methods based on individual goals, needs, and preferences rather than using a single fixed method.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video is useful when interaction and visual cues matter, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messages or chat can work for brief check-ins or when a written record helps with planning. These options give flexibility for parents and busy caregivers to fit therapy into their days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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