Sharareh Ghedari, LMFT

Sharareh Ghedari is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with adults who are facing relationship strain, family conflict, or major life changes. Sharareh uses a respectful and compassionate style and adjusts her approach to each person's needs.

She emphasizes practical steps you can try between sessions. That can include simple behavior changes, tools to reduce worry, and ways to bring more calm into daily routines. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with room to talk through immediate concerns and plan next steps.

Sharareh has worked in California for 28 years and brings that experience to common issues like postpartum depression, immigration and multicultural concerns, and challenges young adults often face. She blends problem-solving with attention to cultural context so therapy fits the whole person.

Motivational techniques are used when people want clearer goals or need help taking action. Internal Family Systems ideas may be introduced to help people understand different parts of themselves and how those parts affect relationships and mood.

The overall aim is to support and empower people to make sustainable changes. Sharareh helps clients set realistic goals, track progress, and build coping skills that fit daily life. Her tone is warm, straightforward, and focused on practical results.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Sharareh often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT focuses on concrete steps and short-term tools to reduce worry and change habits that keep problems going.

She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people clarify goals and strengthen their own motivation to change. This approach is useful when someone feels stuck or unsure how to begin making a change.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then recommend a mix of methods that fit. That collaborative planning can be adjusted as progress unfolds.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and to choose what feels most comfortable for each person.