Sharareh Ghedari, LMFT

Sharareh Ghedari is an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California with 28 years of professional experience. She works with people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, family conflict, and life transitions. She also addresses immigration-related concerns, multicultural issues, postpartum depression, and challenges common to young adults.

Sharareh uses straightforward, skills-based methods to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and habits. She often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns that keep problems going and to test small changes in thinking and behavior. She also uses Motivational Interviewing to clarify goals and support commitment to change, and Internal Family Systems to look at different parts of a person's inner experience.

Sessions focus on practical steps you can try between meetings. Conversations include mapping current problems, setting short-term goals, and practicing new responses to stress. Homework may include brief exercises, thought records, or behavior experiments to see what works in daily life.

Sharareh pays attention to cultural background and immigration challenges when they affect stress or relationships. She offers sessions in English and Persian and aims to make therapy relevant to each person’s life circumstances. Her approach is direct and organized, with an emphasis on concrete strategies.

To begin, people are invited to describe their main concern and goals. From there she helps build a plan that breaks problems into manageable steps and tracks progress over time.

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