Dr. Sheriffa Gallwey
Practical support for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW-R, LCSW
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- New York, Florida, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sheriffa
Dr. Sheriffa Gallwey helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and parenting challenges. She also addresses grief, addictions, intimacy concerns, sleep and eating problems, anger, self-esteem, and career stress.
Dr. Gallwey brings direct, practical support and calm guidance to families and parenting situations. She is licensed as an LCSW-R and LCSW and practices from New York.
She has 25 years of hands-on experience in individual, group, and family work.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and engaging. Sessions focus on clear goals and step-by-step progress rather than vague ideas. She uses tools from established therapies and adjusts them to fit each person's life.
Her clinical toolkit includes cognitive behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thinking and dialectical skills for managing strong emotions. She also draws on attachment ideas to look at relationship patterns and on mindfulness to help people stay grounded in the moment. These approaches are mixed to match what a client needs most.
Dr. Gallwey emphasizes collaboration. She works with clients to set realistic goals and to mark small wins along the way.
Conversations are practical and aimed at creating skills that carry into daily family life. Her practice in New York includes support for additional concerns such as adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, caregiving stress, divorce and separation, and coping with loss or major life changes. She speaks English and brings experience across many life stages.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting work
Dr. Gallwey blends a few proven approaches into online sessions so families and individuals can get practical help that fits their life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying new actions to reduce stress and improve mood. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and behavior patterns that interfere with daily life.Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, teaches skills for tolerating intense emotions and improving communication. DBT tools help people manage anger, impulsivity, and relationship conflict. Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationship patterns shape current closeness and communication, which can be helpful for parenting and family dynamics.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what works best. That ongoing teamwork helps shape sessions to match individual needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options offer flexibility for busy families and people in different places. Video lets therapists observe interaction and teach skills live, while phone and messaging provide easier check-ins and follow-up between sessions.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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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