About Sherrie
Sherrie Kuns-Mackert greets people with a straightforward, respectful style. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who draws on 30 years of professional experience in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, depression, compassion fatigue, and attention concerns such as ADHD.
Sherrie uses a conversational approach to tailor sessions to each person's needs. She listens for practical patterns that cause trouble day to day. Together with the client she builds simple steps to reduce overwhelm and improve focus.
Background and approach
Her background includes long-term clinical work across a variety of concerns. That experience helps her spot when emotional struggles link to chronic pain, grief, or past attachment wounds. She also brings familiarity with substance use, dissociation, and impulse difficulties.
Sessions aim to be down-to-earth and solution minded. Sherrie helps people sort what matters most right now and set small, achievable goals. She adjusts pacing and tools so the work fits each person’s life.
People who reach out can expect steady support and clear next steps. Sherrie encourages honesty about what feels hard and what has helped in the past. She invites anyone ready to try therapy to take the initial step and begin scheduling.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Sherrie uses established, evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach emphasizes learning skills to manage strong emotions and reduce reactivity. That kind of work helps with anger, anxiety, and mood swings by teaching step-by-step tools people can use day to day.Another frequent focus is improving attention and coping for those with ADHD or concentration struggles. Sessions concentrate on routines, simple planning strategies, and ways to reduce distraction so tasks become more doable. These strategies also help with overwhelm linked to chronic pain or fatigue.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan together. This makes it easier to pick methods that match the person's needs and preferences rather than imposing a single model.
Online therapy offers flexibility for how and when work happens. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a quick break or low-bandwidth moments, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days while keeping the focus on meaningful progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Depression
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English