About Sherry
Sherry Farrell is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She brings ten years of clinical experience and a straightforward, compassionate approach to sessions. Sherry connects with people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, phobias, and other life stresses.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in clinical psychology from San Francisco State University and a master’s in counseling psychology from the University of San Francisco.
Background and approach
Early in her career she worked in clinics and schools, then spent several years teaching while raising her children. That mix of clinical and classroom work shaped how she understands behavior and family dynamics. Sherry has worked with individuals coping with anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD, and major life transitions.
She has also supported people managing addiction, infidelity, parenting challenges, divorce, and chronic illness in the context of couples and family concerns. This range informs how she tailors treatment to each person’s situation. In sessions she uses client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, existential ideas, and solution-focused strategies.
Her style is collaborative and practical - she listens first, then helps set achievable goals. Sessions focus on clear steps people can try between meetings. Sherry emphasizes a respectful, team-based relationship.
She aims to help people move from stress and worry toward calmer, more manageable daily life. The first meeting is about understanding where a person is and what small changes might help.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person without judgment. That approach helps build trust online and guides what matters most to the client. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at clear links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it works well for anxiety, phobias, and mood concerns when delivered over video or messaging. Solution-focused therapy emphasizes small, concrete steps and short-term goals, which can be planned and evaluated between remote sessions. Choosing the right approach is part of the process. She will work together with the client to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. The therapist will adjust methods as progress is made and check in about what is and isn’t helping. Online sessions offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when video isn’t possible, live chat is useful for brief check-ins or lower-bandwidth conversations, and text messaging supports ongoing feedback between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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