About Sheriffa
Dr. Sheriffa Gallwey helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, depression, addictions, ADHD, and related concerns. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with the credentials LCSW-R and LCSW and brings 25 years of practice to each conversation.
Her tone is supportive and practical, aimed at people who want clear steps forward. She listens for how past attachments and current patterns affect daily life. Sessions focus on concrete goals and small milestones.
Background and approach
Therapy mixes cognitive strategies and dialectical skills with an emphasis on the therapeutic relationship. In practical terms her work includes talking through problem areas, identifying unhelpful thoughts, and practicing new ways of reacting. Mindfulness techniques and motivational interviewing are used to build focus and follow-through.
Clients leave with tools they can use between sessions. Dr. Gallwey has experience with a wide range of life challenges, from parenting strain and career stress to trauma, addiction, and bereavement.
She pays attention to communication problems, impulsivity, and feelings of emptiness or shame when these get in the way of daily functioning. The first meetings focus on clear goals and a simple plan. She helps people break larger changes into doable steps and checks progress along the way.
This steady, collaborative method is intended to make hard work feel more manageable.
How her approaches translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people notice and change ways of relating that cause pain. It is useful for relationship problems, intimacy issues, and deep-seated feelings of abandonment or emptiness. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against reality, then trying different behaviors to shift mood and function; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and impulsivity. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that help with strong emotions, impulsive behaviors, and relationship conflict.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences. Together they set clear objectives, try approaches in-session, and adjust based on what helps most in daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is helpful for longer sessions and practicing skills together, while phone sessions can fit into a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins or coaching-style support easier on busy days. These options make it simpler to keep momentum between meetings and to use therapy when and how it fits into a client’s routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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