About Sherry
Sherry Farrell is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California who centers her practice on building strong therapeutic relationships. She offers straightforward, practical support for common struggles like anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. Sherry aims to make the first step feel manageable and clear for people searching for help.
Sherry trained in counseling psychology and has roots in both clinical and educational settings. She spent several years working in mental health, then taught young people while raising her own children.
Background and approach
That mix of clinical and classroom experience shaped how she understands family dynamics and everyday stressors. Her sessions typically focus on identifying small, useful changes that add up over time. She draws on client-centered and solution-focused methods to help people set realistic goals.
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to tackle unhelpful thoughts and patterns. Sherry has worked with individuals and couples in clinics and schools. Her background includes supporting people through trauma, addiction, relationship strain, mood disorders, and life transitions.
She takes a collaborative approach and partners with clients on practical strategies they can use outside sessions. She values empathy, respect, and a calm presence in the room. That makes it easier to talk through difficult topics such as parenting strain, intimacy issues, or career stress.
Sherry aims to help people move from feeling stuck toward clearer, more manageable steps forward.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building trust. The therapist follows the client's pace, reflects back what is said, and helps people name their concerns so they feel understood. This approach helps with relationship strain, grief, and self-esteem issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches specific skills to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and sleep problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether to focus on skill-building, exploring meaning, or setting short-term steps to change daily patterns.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for more interactive work. Phone sessions can fit a short break or quieter time without video. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or when someone prefers writing instead of speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent with busy schedules.
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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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