About Shemeram
Shemeram "Shari" Lachin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on practical, solution-oriented care. She has seven years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and issues related to trauma and identity. She uses an affirming and nonjudgmental style so people feel heard and respected from the first conversation.
Shari aims to make therapy an active, collaborative process. She helps people identify strengths and small changes that add up to improvement.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on clear goals, coping strategies, and steps to regain stability after difficult experiences. Her work includes supporting people facing relationship strain, abandonment and attachment concerns, and problems tied to family of origin. She also addresses substance use, dissociation, feelings of emptiness, and issues common to first responders.
Shari pays attention to how past experiences shape present reactions and habits. Shari provides care that is LGBT-affirming and attentive to identity-related stressors. She helps people with self-esteem and communication problems, commitment worries, and recovery after separation or divorce.
Her approach is practical rather than theoretical - she prioritizes what helps a person feel better in daily life. Sessions are offered in English and Shari accepts international clients who can connect from California. People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions to fit their life.
She describes therapy as teamwork where small steps build toward meaningful change.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fits your life
Shari uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change. One approach emphasizes skill building for managing anxiety and stress through concrete strategies like breathing, grounding, and activity planning. These strategies help people lower daily tension and gain more control over anxious moments.Another approach focuses on working through trauma and attachment wounds by noticing patterns and creating new habits in relationships and coping. This work addresses dissociation, abandonment fears, and problems that come from family of origin experiences. It aims to replace old, unhelpful reactions with steadier ways of responding.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Shari collaborates with each person to decide what methods make sense based on their goals, preferences, and life demands. She adjusts direction over time so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging offer brief check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options help people connect from different locations and schedules while keeping therapy focused on useful, real-world change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English