About Shari
Shari Peterson is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 20 years in mental health care. She practices in Minnesota and brings practical experience from community mental health, schools, and outpatient settings. Shari uses a warm, straightforward style and aims to make therapy approachable for people feeling overwhelmed.
Shari focuses on common struggles such as stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She also helps with ADHD, relationship and family concerns, eating and sleep problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, and bipolar conditions.
How Shari works
Additional areas of attention include attachment issues, body image, chronic illness or pain, and communication problems. Her sessions are grounded in a person-centered, strengths-based stance. She blends client-centered methods with cognitive-behavioral work, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and elements of the Gottman Method when relationship issues are present.
Sessions move at a pace set by the individual and focus on practical steps that feel doable. Shari pays close attention to the relationships and patterns that shape day-to-day life. She helps people talk through family of origin issues, codependency, control struggles, dissociation, and the impacts of trauma or domestic violence.
Her approach emphasizes listening first, then working toward clear, manageable goals. People can expect plain language in sessions and straightforward tools to try between meetings. Shari encourages collaboration so that each plan matches the person's needs and life situation.
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What Shari works with
The areas below are the ones Shari selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes respect, listening, and collaboration. It helps people clarify goals and make choices that fit their values, which can be useful for stress, depression, and self-esteem concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and is often used for anxiety, depression, and some stress-related issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through what matters most to the person, try different methods, and adjust based on progress and preference. That collaborative process helps match techniques like mindful practice or CBT skills to real-life goals.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit around work, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to keep consistent work on stress, relationships, mood, or habit change without long commutes.
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