About Sheri
Sheri Pate is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who centers her work on mindfulness and practical strategies. She draws on mindfulness exercises, guided imagery, and relaxation techniques to help people manage stress and uncomfortable emotions. Sheri emphasizes acceptance first, then supports clients as they decide when and how to change.
Sheri blends mindfulness with cognitive behavioral ideas to address anxiety, depression, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder.
How Sheri works
She also uses attachment-based and emotionally focused ideas to help people understand relationship patterns and improve communication. Her focus areas include stress, anger, self-esteem, trauma and abuse, grief, sleeping problems, ADHD, and intimacy-related concerns. Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from UCLA and a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from California Lutheran University.
Sheri has worked in this field since 2002 and brings 16 years of experience as an LMFT in California. She has led mindfulness, meditation, and yoga groups in person and online from 2011 to 2022. Sheri often incorporates mind-body practices and visualization into sessions to support coping with chronic pain, caregiver stress, and life changes.
She created a card game called Witness Cards to help people identify areas for growth and change with less pressure. Sessions emphasize practical tools, steady pacing, and attention to strengths. Clients who prefer a calm, reflective approach may find her style helpful.
She aims to help people connect with their own resources and bring more meaning and satisfaction into daily life.
Sheri lists 6 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
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How mindfulness and focused therapy work online
Attachment-based ideas help people notice how early relationships shape current patterns and emotional responses. Online sessions use guided conversation and reflective exercises to identify those patterns and try new ways of relating to yourself and others. Client-centered work emphasizes acceptance and the person’s own goals. The therapist follows the client’s lead, listens closely, and offers gentle exercises like guided imagery or awareness practices to build self-acceptance and confidence. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) provides concrete tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. In online sessions this often looks like short skill practice, thought records, and behavioral experiments that can be reviewed by phone or video. Finding the right mix is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then try approaches that match those needs. Adjustments are made along the way so the work stays practical and manageable. Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for guided exercises, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit quick check-ins or ongoing coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue regular work on goals.Start online instead of waiting
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