About Sheri
Sheri Pate is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) who blends mindfulness with practical talk therapy. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, relationship struggles, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Her style is calm and direct, with short exercises clients can use between sessions. Sheri uses mindfulness and guided imagery to help people settle uncomfortable thoughts and feel more centered.
She brings in cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thinking and emotionally focused techniques to strengthen important connections. Sessions also draw on client-centered care, listening for each person’s strengths and values.
She has worked in the field since 2002 and has led mindfulness, meditation, and yoga groups in person and online. Those group experiences shaped how she teaches simple practices for daily life.
Sheri also created a card game, Witness Cards, to make self-awareness more approachable. Sheri earned an undergraduate degree in psychology from UCLA and a master’s degree in counseling psychology from California Lutheran University.
She is based in California and holds a CA LMFT credential. Her approach centers on meeting people where they are and building skills that fit their routines.
Early work focuses on calming practices and clear steps you can try right away. Over time she helps people reconnect with what matters and move toward more enjoyment and meaning.
How Sheri’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work helps people notice how they relate to others and to themselves, and it supports repair of painful patterns in relationships. This approach can be useful for intimacy concerns, commitment issues, and family of origin problems. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, respect, and finding what matters to the client; it creates space to name strengths and decide next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches concrete ways to change thoughts and behaviors that keep stress, anxiety, and sleep problems going. These methods pair well with mindfulness practices that calm the nervous system and make skills easier to use. Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to test techniques and see what feels useful. Together they will set goals, try exercises like guided imagery or short mindfulness practices, and adjust methods based on results and preference. Online therapy offers flexibility for busy days. Video calls let people work with body-based practices like guided relaxation and observe nonverbal cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a shorter check-in during a break. Live chat or text-based messaging is useful for quick coping strategies, ongoing support between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while accommodating daily life.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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