About Jerri
Dr. Jerri Curry is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California with four decades of clinical experience.
Background and approach
She focuses on practical steps people can take when stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, or life transitions feel overwhelming. Sessions are shaped around each person's needs and goals.
Dr. Curry listens for the patterns that keep people stuck and helps them notice how thoughts influence feelings and behavior.
She uses clear, straightforward tools to shift unhelpful thinking and build healthier responses. Conversations aim to be respectful, direct, and grounded in real-life choices.
Her work covers a wide range of concerns including grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, sleep and eating problems, caregiver stress, and career changes. She also supports people facing anger, panic attacks, mood disorders, and compassion fatigue.
Additional areas of focus include body image, control issues, divorce and separation, and end-of-life concerns. Dr.
Curry describes therapy as a process of growing awareness and personal responsibility. She encourages clients to try small experiments between sessions and to notice what changes.
The tone is empowering rather than shaming. People who prefer straightforward conversation and practical tools tend to do well with her.
She adapts pace and techniques to each person, aiming to create momentum for change. Sessions are collaborative and aimed at helping clients move toward a more satisfying life.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Dr. Curry commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Existential Therapy in her work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood symptoms, and change unhelpful habits. Existential Therapy helps people clarify values, face life transitions, and consider meaning and responsibility when feeling stuck or at a crossroads.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss your goals and preferences and adjust methods as you go. Clients and therapist work together to choose techniques that feel useful and match what matters to you.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a shorter break or use less bandwidth, live chat offers real-time written back-and-forth, and text messaging supports brief check-ins or reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule regular sessions and keep therapy consistent despite busy lives.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English