About Sheri
Sheri Pate is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who blends somatic and mindfulness practices with talk therapy. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and the everyday challenges that get in the way of feeling calm and capable. Sheri emphasizes acceptance and gentle, practical steps to build new habits and coping skills.
She uses body-based awareness and mindfulness exercises to help people notice how stress shows up in the body.
Background and approach
These practices are paired with cognitive and emotion-focused tools to change unhelpful thinking and patterns. Sessions often include guided imagery, deep relaxation, and simple awareness drills you can use between meetings. Sheri brings 16 years of clinical experience and training as an LMFT to her work in California.
She also taught yoga, meditation, and mindfulness groups across the country from 2011 to 2022 and adapted those offerings for virtual formats during the pandemic. That background informs her practical, movement-aware approach to feeling better. She offers a warm, accepting stance and starts by learning about a person's strengths and daily life.
From there she helps people set small, concrete goals - things they can try right away to reduce stress and improve sleep, relationships, or overall balance. Sheri created simple tools such as an awareness card game called Witness Cards to help people name areas for growth.
Her aim is to support people in becoming more aware of their inner resources and to encourage steady, manageable change.
How somatic and mindfulness approaches translate to online therapy
The practice draws on somatic therapy and attachment-based and client-centered approaches. Somatic therapy focuses on noticing bodily sensations and learning simple practices to calm the body and reduce physical signs of stress. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in relationships and helps people understand how early connections shape current feelings and reactions. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening with empathy and building on a person's strengths to set goals that feel right to them.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with a person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. Over time these choices are adjusted based on what helps most, and the person is involved in deciding what to keep or change.
Online therapy offers flexibility and many practical benefits. Video calls let the therapist and client work through guided imagery, breathing, and body-awareness exercises together. Phone sessions and live chat can be used for check-ins when schedules are tight. Text-based messaging supports short exercises, reminders, and ongoing reflection between sessions, making it easier to practice skills in daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English