about sherry
Sherry Helgoe is a Psychology Business Consultant bringing psychology and business together. She uses her solid psychology and business background, educator expertise and designs programs for all levels of business to improve their organizations and teams.
Understanding People. Understanding Organizations… she bridges the gap between business and psychology. Business psychology can create change within your business by improving your organizational effectiveness while simultaneously increasing your bottom line.
Her consulting program facilitates team building by helping people understand themselves and the people they work with better. The proven end results include:
- Leadership style development
- Individual personality style awareness
- Conflict management and problem solving plans
- Business planning and interdepartmental buy-in
- Communication style knowledge
- Reduced stress
She is a Professor at Pepperdine University and teaches in the Graduate School’s Clinical Psychology Program.
Sherry Helgoe MA, LMFT is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (mfc38590), has been providing therapy to individuals, couples and families for the last 16 years and has a private practice location in Yorba Linda, California.
In addition to working in the field of psychology since 1995, she has been working in the real estate and short sale industry since 2006 educating agents, brokers, real estate teams, loan officers, title reps and home warranty reps on how to meet the challenges facing homeowners and home buyers during the short sale process.
Specialized Training
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®)
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument is administered over 2.5 million times a year and is considered the most widely used personality assessment of its kind. The MBTI instrument is a restricted assessment, meaning it can only be purchased and used by those who meet certain requirements.
This highly respected tool is based on well-researched and validated personality theory with proven applications in a variety of areas, including:
- Personal growth and development
- Organizational development
- Management consulting
- Individual work and life coaching
- Leadership development and team building
- Counseling for individuals and families
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Mind-Body Medicine: A 7-Day Residential Training Program
This training provided an opportunity to directly experience mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) with Drs. Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli, to learn to practice mindfulness meditation as it is taught in the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts, Michigan. Learning objectives included:
- Integrating mindful approaches to the experience and expression of stress, overwhelm, grief and anxiety within ourselves and when working with others.
- Understanding instructing and guiding others in the formal and informal methods of mindfulness-based stress reduction practices.
Sherry successfully completed this residential training in February 2001 and applies the concepts in her business consulting and therapy practice.