About Sharareh
Sharareh Ghedari is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California. She helps people who are stressed, anxious, or facing big life changes.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with relationship and family tensions, postpartum depression, immigration concerns, and multicultural issues. Sessions are offered in English and Persian.
With 28 years of professional experience, she uses practical talk and structured strategies to address day-to-day problems. She works alongside each person to shape a plan that fits their life and goals.
Conversations are respectful and tuned to cultural background and personal priorities. Her approach combines tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing with parts-focused work from Internal Family Systems.
That mix lets clients practice new skills, clarify what matters to them, and understand inner conflicts that get in the way of change. Sharareh focuses on clear steps people can take between sessions.
She often helps with coping skills for anxiety, ways to manage stress in daily routines, and improving communication in close relationships. For parents and young adults she can address adjustment, identity, and role shifts that come with new life stages.
If someone wants to begin, she guides them through a brief intake and a collaborative plan. Her long experience includes work across diverse communities, and she adapts language and pacing to each person.
The goal is steady progress toward more manageable days and clearer choices.
How these approaches work online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Online CBT sessions often include short exercises and homework to try between meetings, which helps reduce anxiety and manage stress.Motivational Interviewing emphasizes a person’s own motivations for change. It uses reflective questions and gentle planning to help someone resolve ambivalence and commit to steps that matter to them.
Internal Family Systems looks at different parts of a person’s internal experience and how they relate. In online sessions this approach can help someone notice patterns, soothe inner critics, and strengthen parts that want care and direction.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has worked before. Together they will try methods that fit the person's life and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats offer real flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or brief coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Persian