About Sherrin
Dr. Sherrin Packer-Rosenthal helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting concerns, and major life changes. She holds LCSW and LPCC credentials and brings 40 years of clinical experience to her work.
Her approach is practical and straightforward, focusing on tools people can use right away. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about what matters to them. Sessions focus on building skills for coping, repairing everyday relationship ruptures, and increasing self-compassion.
Background and approach
She aims to help each person feel more confident in their choices. Her background includes a National Institute of Mental Health Fellowship in community mental health and work developing shelters and children's support programs. She also completed training with clinicians known for trauma, attachment, and nervous system approaches.
That experience informs how she blends methods for each person. Dr. Packer-Rosenthal uses a mix of evidence-informed methods chosen to fit each client.
She emphasizes clear, teachable skills clients can practice between sessions. The goal is that clients leave with better tools and a clearer sense of direction. She also has experience as a credentialed school counselor and has helped families navigate early identification and educational planning like IEPs and 504 plans.
Her work prioritizes helping people develop kindness toward themselves while they make changes and face challenges.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape how people connect now; online sessions can help identify patterns and build new ways of relating through skills and practice. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches clear strategies to change them, which works well in short exercises and between-session practice. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that can be practiced in daily life and reviewed during sessions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to a person's goals and preferences, explain options, and adapt methods over time. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to try and how to measure progress.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill coaching, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can be used for quick check-ins or between-session support. These options help people fit therapy into busy days, manage childcare or transportation limits, and try different rhythms of care to find what works best.
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What this counselor 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