About Sheri
Sheri Jacobs is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and parenting challenges. Sheri aims to make the first step feel less intimidating by listening without judgment and offering steady support.
Her work centers on creating a calm, open space where clients can speak honestly about their thoughts and feelings. She uses straightforward conversation and practical tools so people can try small changes between sessions.
How Sheri works
Communication skills and emotional safety are frequent topics in her work. Sheri draws on client-centered methods to follow what matters most to each person. She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify helpful and unhelpful thinking patterns.
Together these approaches help clients tackle anxiety, low mood, relationship tension, and the fallout from trauma or loss. Over the years she has worked with people facing complicated life transitions, caregiving and hospice concerns, compassion fatigue, and career-related stress. Sheri pays attention to how guilt, shame, and forgiveness shape daily life, and she helps clients build clearer self-understanding and self-care habits.
Sessions are offered in English and held with a focus on practical coping skills and clearer communication. Sheri supports people as they take steps toward better emotional balance and stronger connections with others.
Sheri lists 2 ways of working on the entry:
What Sheri works with
The areas below are the ones Sheri selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How client-centered and CBT work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on following the client’s lead, offering empathic listening and reflection so people feel heard and understood. This approach helps when someone needs space to process grief, parenting stress, or complicated emotions without being directed toward a specific agenda.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions, and then tries small, practical experiments to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is often useful for anxiety, low mood, and anger when people want clear strategies to reduce distress and handle triggers.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sheri will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then recommend an approach or mix of approaches that fits those needs. The process is collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues, phone can be simpler if bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets someone reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or busy schedules, while keeping focus on practical coping and clearer communication.
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