Sheri Pate, LMFT

Sheri Pate is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) who centers her work on mindfulness and self-acceptance. She encourages people to start where they are and uses breathwork, guided imagery, and relaxation to reduce stress and calm overwhelming thoughts. Sheri writes and teaches practical exercises so clients can practice new skills between sessions.

She brings 16 years of clinical experience and uses tools from attachment-based, client-centered, cognitive behavioral, emotionally-focused, and mindfulness therapies. Sheri often pairs short mindfulness practices with conversations about relationships, self-esteem, and coping strategies. That mix helps clients notice patterns and try different responses in daily life.

Sheri draws on training in counseling psychology and an undergraduate degree in psychology. She has led yoga, meditation, and mindfulness groups since 2011 and adapted those practices to virtual formats during the pandemic. She created a simple card game called Witness Cards to help people name areas they want to change.

Her approach aims to connect practical skills to personal meaning. Sessions include guided imagery, relaxation, and focused awareness exercises alongside talk therapy. Sheri describes the work as collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort.

Clients often bring worries about stress, anxiety, grief, relationship tension, caregiver strain, aging and geriatric issues, chronic illness, attention concerns, and life transitions. She helps people notice what matters most and take small steps toward more ease and purpose.

How therapy approaches and online work come together

Sheri uses mindfulness and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people manage stress and change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness practice focuses on simple attention exercises, breathing, and guided relaxation to reduce reactivity and improve focus. Cognitive behavioral methods look at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teach small experiments to try different responses.

She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape expectations and emotional habits. That approach helps when people are struggling with intimacy, communication problems, or caregiver stress. Sheri frames these approaches in straightforward language and adapts exercises to what each person finds helpful.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sheri collaborates with clients to choose methods that fit their goals, lifestyle, and comfort level. That may mean more mindfulness practice for stress relief or making concrete skill plans when patterns of thinking cause problems.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are set by the practice. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, limit travel, and use shorter check-ins when a full hour is not practical. Many people find that having exercises to practice between sessions helps therapy stick to daily life.