Dr. Sherrin Packer-Rosenthal

She helps people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, and major life changes. Her approach is warm and nonjudgmental, focused on helping clients feel heard and understood as they consider change.

She selects therapy methods to match each person's needs rather than using a single fixed model. That can mean drawing on attachment-based ideas to deepen relationships, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking, or skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage intense emotions.

Gottman Method work is also part of her repertoire for relationship-focused concerns. Her background includes an NIMH fellowship in community mental health and work creating shelters and child support programs.

She trained alongside clinicians who study trauma, neurobiology, and attachment and uses that knowledge pragmatically when helping people develop self-compassion and resilience. She also became a credentialed school counselor to help families navigate early identification, IEPs, and 504 plans so children access appropriate educational supports.

That experience informs her understanding of practical challenges parents face. In sessions she aims to teach repair skills for everyday relationship ruptures and to help clients become the experts on their own lives.

The goal is steady, manageable change so people can feel more confident as parents and partners.