About Sherri
Sherri Kardell is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in California. She offers one-on-one therapy and life coaching for people navigating big emotional transitions. Her style aims to be steady and clear so clients can feel understood and begin to change.
Sherri focuses on relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, and self-esteem struggles. She also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment wounds, codependency, and communication problems. Many clients come with patterns that repeat across relationships or a sense of emptiness they want to resolve.
How Sherri works
Her work uses an attachment-based view of development to help people reconnect with parts of themselves that were set aside to adapt to early expectations. She combines that with client-centered and existential ideas to honor each person's values and life questions. Imago relationship ideas are used when relational patterns need practical repair and clearer communication.
Sessions often mix psychotherapy and life-coaching tools. Sherri helps people identify unhelpful beliefs and build new ways of relating to themselves and others. She draws on seven years of clinical experience as an LMFT and a long personal practice in spiritual reflection to inform her approach.
Sherri aims to tailor therapy to real goals like improving confidence, handling grief, or resolving long-standing patterns. She encourages a collaborative relationship where the client’s needs shape the pace and focus of work.
Sherri lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Sherri works with
The areas below are the ones Sherri selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Online approaches for attachment and relationship work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand why they feel distant, anxious, or stuck with partners and family members and guides them to rebuild trust and connection.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and treating the client as the expert on their life. The therapist offers empathy and reflection so people can explore values, decide what matters, and take steps that feel right for them.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, needs, and preferences and then choose methods together. That collaborative process helps match techniques to practical concerns like grief, commitment issues, or attachment wounds.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video works well for deep conversations and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people stay connected between meetings or reach out when writing helps process emotions.
These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life while keeping the focus on meaningful change and improved relationships.
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