About Sherry
Sherry Bougard is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem struggles. She brings ten years of experience and a calm, straightforward style. Sherry aims to make first steps feel doable for anyone nervous about beginning therapy.
She focuses on short-term skills and longer-term insight. In sessions she teaches tools to manage anxious thoughts and low mood. She also works with people facing life changes, grief, intimacy issues, career stress, and challenges related to identity and relationships.
Background and approach
Sherry blends hands-on techniques with deeper exploration of patterns. She might use thought-focused work to change unhelpful habits and mindfulness exercises to reduce reactivity. At the same time she pays attention to past experiences that shape current behavior and feelings.
Sessions are practical and example-driven. Clients can expect guidance on small steps they can try between meetings. She also offers gentle coaching around motivation and decision-making when people feel stuck.
Sherry holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, listed as LCSW, and practices in Tennessee. She offers a direct and nonjudgmental presence while helping people find approaches that fit their life and goals.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Sherry commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to help people manage thoughts and emotions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower reactivity and increase calm in stressful moments.She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to support change when someone feels stuck. That approach uses straightforward questions and reflective listening to build motivation and clarify personal goals. Together these methods offer both short-term coping tools and steps toward longer-term change. Sherry will talk with each person and decide collaboratively which approach fits their goals and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls let you speak face to face and use visual cues, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick reflections, step-by-step coaching, or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, parenting, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Texas
- Languages
- English