About Sherrin
Dr. Sherrin Packer-Rosenthal is a California-based licensed clinician with forty years of experience. She helps people who are stressed, anxious, coping with trauma or abuse, managing parenting challenges, or facing major life changes.
Her manner is direct and warm, and she focuses on creating a space where clients can speak honestly without judgment. Her work draws on a mix of practical methods. She aims to pick approaches that fit each person’s needs rather than using one fixed method.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on learning skills, repairing everyday ruptures in relationships, and building self-compassion and confidence. Dr. Packer-Rosenthal keeps current with psychology, neurology, and biology research and evaluates methods with a critical eye.
Her background includes an NIMH fellowship in community mental health and training alongside clinicians such as Dr. Alicia Lieberman. She has worked on shelters and children’s support programs and became a credentialed school counselor to help families navigate early identification, IEPs, and 504 plans.
In practical terms, she helps people understand patterns, develop coping tools, and practice new ways of relating to others. Parents can learn specific skills to feel more confident with their children and partners. She emphasizes repair after conflict and learning to be kinder to oneself.
The goal she offers is straightforward: clients develop the knowledge and skills to guide their own lives. Over time, people become the experts on their own situation while drawing on her guidance and experience.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current feelings and interactions; online sessions can help people notice patterns in relationships and practice new ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches tools to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and which methods feel most useful. That collaborative process helps decide whether attachment-focused work, CBT techniques, or a blend will best match what a person wants to change.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work for skills practice and emotion-focused conversations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when being off camera helps someone focus. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit short check-ins or coaching into a busy day. These options help people access consistent care while balancing school, work, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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