About Sherrie
Sherrie Mintz is a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, and relationship or family struggles. She speaks plainly and offers steady support while you talk through what feels overwhelming. She aims to create a calm space where parents and individuals can map small, realistic steps forward.
Sherrie draws from practical methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to address day-to-day worries and mood shifts.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centered and emotion-focused ideas to deepen understanding of patterns in relationships and family life. Sessions focus on what matters most to each person and on tools that can be used between meetings. Her work includes grief, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and life transitions.
She also pays attention to attachment, adoption and foster care concerns, ADHD, and communication or control issues that make relationships tense. Sherrie adapts conversations to the situation and the pace each person needs. With four years of experience as an LCSW - licensed clinical social worker - she blends practical skills with a respectful, empathetic approach.
She aims to help callers identify one or two steps they can try between sessions. The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes. People meet with Sherrie by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
She works in English and maintains a straightforward, collaborative style to help people make changes that fit their lives.
How therapy approaches fit into online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. It helps when someone needs a respectful space to sort through feelings and values before making changes.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, actions, and feelings interact. It offers simple tools and exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits.
Emotionally-focused work helps people notice and change patterns in close relationships. It can be useful for addressing recurring conflicts and improving emotional connection.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try different techniques to see what helps most. This is a team effort where preferences and real-life demands guide which methods are used.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video lets people use body language and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text sessions allow brief check-ins and more flexible scheduling. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting therapy into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English