About Sherie
Sherie Dechter is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, trauma, parenting challenges, and career or identity questions. She draws on thirty years of experience to offer steady, practical support during hard times. Sessions focus on clear goals and on small steps that fit each person’s life.
She uses a blend of approaches chosen to match each person's needs, including practical strategies to reduce anxiety and ways to notice what matters most.
Background and approach
Sherie aims to make sessions feel warm and approachable so people can talk honestly about pain, longing, and the changes they want. Her background includes long experience working with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, caregiver stress, and family of origin wounds. She also assists with fertility-related stress, compassion fatigue, and the emotional impacts of trauma and loss.
Sherie brings many years of clinical practice to those struggles. In sessions she works collaboratively, helping people name priorities and practice skills between meetings. Conversations often combine problem-solving with attention to values, relationships, and emotional patterns.
The emphasis is on realistic steps clients can try right away. People who choose Sherie can expect straightforward guidance, an empathetic presence, and a focus on practical change. She helps people grieve, rebuild, and move toward more satisfying relationships and a clearer sense of purpose.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that reflect their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and decisions about life direction. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns that formed early and how they affect current connections; it is often helpful for intimacy, family issues, and parenting concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns, which can reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sherie will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they set priorities, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy makes these approaches easier to use around a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions can be a low-bandwidth option and live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins, journaling prompts, or skill practice between sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English