Dr. Sherrin Packer-Rosenthal

Dr. Sherrin Packer-Rosenthal is a California-licensed therapist with 40 years of professional experience. She helps people address stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and coping with life changes, offering a supportive, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared openly.

Dr. Packer-Rosenthal emphasizes staying current with findings from psychology, neurology, and biology and maintains connections with educational institutions to review new information with a critical eye toward research methods. She selects therapeutic approaches from well-established methods that fit each person’s needs and choices, with the goal of helping clients become experts in understanding themselves.

When working with families or partners, she focuses on developing skills for confident, loving parenting and partnership, and on practical ways to repair the everyday ruptures that occur in relationships. Her training includes an NIMH Fellowship in Community Mental Health, during which she worked with people of all ages, backgrounds, and orientations and helped found early shelters and children support programs.

Dr. Packer-Rosenthal trained with Dr. Alicia Lieberman, PhD, to support families facing challenges, and she became a credentialed school counselor to assist families with early identification, IEPs, and 504 plans so children can access appropriate education. She has also learned from leaders in trauma and interpersonal regulation, including Bessel van der Kolk, Stephen Porges, and Daniel Siegel, and emphasizes the development of self-compassion and self-kindness in therapy.

She is licensed in California as a clinical social worker and as a professional clinical counselor (CA LCSW 82041, CA LPCC 1127) and works with clients across the religious and political spectrum, including those who are non-religious, conservative, or liberal. Dr. Packer-Rosenthal appreciates the privilege of being present for each person’s growth and aims to support and empower clients as they take steps toward a more fulfilling life.