About Sheri
Sheri Bettenhausen is a licensed clinical social worker in Kentucky who helps people dealing with trauma, grief, parenting challenges, depression, anxiety, and stress. She meets clients where they are and offers steady support while people work toward clearer days. Sheri emphasizes respect and straightforward listening in sessions.
She brings 18 years of experience to conversations about addiction, self-esteem, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and relationship or family difficulties. Sheri also addresses topics such as adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, autism and Asperger syndrome, gender dysphoria, and sexual assault and abuse.
Background and approach
She aims to make difficult topics easier to talk about. In sessions she encourages people to name what matters and try small, manageable changes. Sheri uses practical tools from approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to build coping skills.
Solution-Focused ideas help set clear steps toward short-term goals. When trauma is part of the story, Trauma-Focused Therapy is used to help process painful memories at a pace that fits the person. Her style is calm and direct, with attention to the real-life challenges people face day to day.
Sheri describes therapy as a partnership. She supports clients who want to better manage mood swings, grief, parenting strain, sleep trouble, or questions about sexuality. Conversations focus on what would help now and what small changes can make daily life easier.
How Sheri’s Approaches Work Online
Sheri commonly draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy when working with people online. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing small behavioral changes to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process painful events at a pace that feels manageable while developing safety and coping skills.Choosing the right method is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, history, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to focus on skill building, processing past events, or short-term problem solving, and adjust the approach as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into real life. Video calls are good for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit a brief check-in, and messaging allows ongoing reflections between sessions. These options provide flexibility for people balancing work, parenting, or other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English