Dr. Sheriffa Gallwey, LCSW-R, LCSW

Dr. Sheriffa Gallwey is a licensed clinical social worker with over 25 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship pain, trauma, grief, and mood concerns. She also supports people facing addiction, parenting strain, intimacy issues, sleep and eating struggles, career transitions, and challenges related to ADHD and compassion fatigue. Dr. Gallwey practices in New York and works in English.

Her style is warm and engaging. Sessions focus on clear goals and reachable milestones rather than jargon. She uses practical conversation to help people spot patterns, test small changes, and build skills that make daily life easier.

Dr. Gallwey draws on several therapy approaches to match a person’s needs. She blends attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape behavior, client-centered listening to hear what matters most, and cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness to teach emotion regulation and present-moment coping.

Over the years she has worked with individuals, groups, and families on a wide range of issues including abandonment, blended family stresses, caregiver burden, infidelity, and bereavement. Her work often includes practical problem solving alongside emotional processing.

People who choose her can expect a collaborative process. The first steps are setting clear goals, trying small changes between sessions, and checking what works. She invites straightforward conversation about expectations and progress so milestones stay realistic and useful.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape how people relate today. It can be helpful for intimacy issues, commitment worries, abandonment fears, and patterns that repeat in partnerships. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and experience; the therapist listens deeply and follows what matters most to the individual so sessions focus on what the person wants to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools to shift unhelpful thinking and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person's goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean trying CBT skill work for a while, then shifting to attachment-based conversations, or mixing approaches as progress unfolds.

For practical online details, confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Talk with the therapist about session length, timing, and how to structure work between meetings so therapy fits into everyday routines.