Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
How Sheriffa works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW-R, LCSW
- Licensed in
- New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Sheriffa
Dr. Sheriffa Gallwey helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, grief, depression, addictions, and relationship difficulties. She is Dr.
Sheriffa Gallwey, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with long experience in practical, goal-oriented work. Her tone is supportive and straightforward in sessions. She offers a mix of approaches to fit the person in front of her.
That includes ways to look at how relationships shape current feelings and practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and steps toward them, rather than long-standing theory discussions. Clients can expect a collaborative style. The therapist asks questions, listens closely, and helps people pick skills they can try between sessions.
She uses mindfulness and skills-based strategies to manage strong emotions and reduce reactivity. With 25 years of experience, Dr. Gallwey has worked with many concerns, including parenting stress, intimacy issues, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and career transitions.
She draws on both cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior methods to help people handle impulsivity, addictive behaviors, and feelings of emptiness. Her practice also addresses trauma, abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, and caregiver stress. She frames progress as steady work toward concrete milestones and supports clients in tracking small wins along the way.
What Sheriffa works with
Everything Sheriffa lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Sheriffa's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Sheriffa lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How her approaches translate to online work
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand how early relationships shape current reactions. Online sessions can use that lens to improve how someone connects, communicates, and manages closeness or distance in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In sessions she helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new responses to reduce anxiety, anger, or low mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and simple exercises to reduce reactivity and calm strong feelings.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. She will talk with clients about their goals and try methods that fit the person and the problem. If something isn’t working, she adjusts the plan so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers real flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work when visual cues matter, while phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, follow-up coaching, or timely skill reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to keep steady progress while balancing life commitments.
Questions people ask about Sheriffa
What concerns does she help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, and many related struggles such as ADHD and career stress.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Sessions are collaborative and practical. She listens, helps set goals, and suggests exercises and skills to try between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 25 years of clinical experience working with individuals and groups across a wide range of challenges.
Where is she based and what are her credentials?
She practices in New York and holds the credentials LCSW-R and LCSW as listed.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.