Sherrie M. Vavrichek, LCSW-C

Sherrie M. Vavrichek, LCSW-C, is the author of The Guide to Compassionate Assertiveness: How to Express Your Needs and Deal with Conflict While Keeping a Kind Heart (New Harbinger Publications, 2013). Ms. Vavrichek has spoken at national conferences and written about a variety of topics including assertiveness, relationships, mindfulness, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders,  parenting and family issues, and body focused repetitive behaviors. She is a senior staff clinician at the Behavior Therapy Center of Greater Washington in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her website is www.compassionateassertiveness.com