About Sheriffa
Dr. Sheriffa Gallwey helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, grief, depression, and addiction. She also supports concerns like parenting strain, intimacy questions, self-esteem issues, career stress, and coping with life changes.
Dr. Gallwey is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW and LCSW-R - with 25 years of experience based in New York. She takes a warm, straightforward approach in sessions.
Conversations are practical and focused on clear goals.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of methods to fit each person's needs instead of a one-size-fits-all plan. In sessions she listens closely to understand patterns from early relationships and current habits. Then she works with clients to name small, achievable steps.
Techniques may include challenging unhelpful thoughts, practicing emotion regulation skills, and bringing mindful awareness into daily routines. Dr. Gallwey has long experience working with adults on relationship dynamics, parenting challenges, recovery from abuse, and mood disorders such as bipolar disorder.
Her background includes individual, group, and family work over a multi-decade career. People who meet with her can expect goal-oriented conversations, practical tools to use between sessions, and steady support while they try new ways of coping. She encourages clients to set realistic milestones and tracks progress collaboratively.
How her approaches guide online work
Attachment-based work looks at early relationship patterns and how they shape current connections. In plain terms it helps people notice how past hurts affect trust, closeness, and reacting in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and day-to-day problem solving. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity and build calm presence during stressful moments.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they set clear, achievable goals and adjust techniques as progress is made.
Online formats offer real flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever they are, while phone sessions remove the need for a camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone needs help between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the same therapeutic focus.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina
- Languages
- English