About Sherri
Sherri Kardell is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California who uses attachment-based ideas to guide her work. She helps people facing relationship pain, grief, trauma, and struggles with self-esteem.
Background and approach
Her style blends psychotherapy with life-coaching to support meaningful change. Sherri focuses on what happens in close relationships and how early experiences shape current patterns.
She helps people notice repeated behaviors like codependency, avoidance, or fear of commitment and then practices new ways of relating. The goal is clearer communication and more satisfying connections.
Grief and loss are central concerns in her practice. She offers space to process the end of relationships, hospice and end-of-life transitions, and the complex feelings that follow loss.
She also works with clients coping with abandonment, guilt, shame, and isolation. Her approach draws on attachment-based therapy, client-centered methods, existential questions about meaning, and Imago relationship ideas about how partners influence each other.
Sessions are shaped around each person’s goals and paced to what feels manageable. She mixes reflective conversation with practical steps people can try between sessions.
Sherri brings seven years of clinical experience and a long personal commitment to spiritual practice into her work. She aims to be a steady, compassionate presence while helping people reclaim parts of themselves that were set aside to survive earlier hardships.
Her voice is calm and direct, focused on realistic, sustainable change.
Approach-informed online therapy for relationships and meaning
Sherri draws on attachment-based and client-centered approaches to guide online work. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationship patterns and helps people practice new ways of connecting. Client-centered work focuses on listening closely and following each person's pace, helping clients feel heard while they name goals and next steps.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She discusses your needs, goals, and preferences and together they decide which methods fit best. That might mean tracking relational patterns one week and using coaching-style tasks the next to test new behaviors in daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can provide quick check-ins or support between sessions, and messaging supports ongoing process work without scheduling a full call. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English