About Sheryl
Sheryl Harrington is a Texas-based licensed clinical social worker with 27 years of experience. She aims to make the first step feel less heavy by listening and helping people find practical ways forward. She frames clients as experts in their own lives and builds on existing strengths to address current struggles.
Her work commonly focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma and abuse. She also helps people manage relationship strain, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, grief, and anger.
Background and approach
Many clients turn to her for help with career strain, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Sheryl uses straightforward, talk-based methods that help people identify patterns and try small, manageable changes. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to follow what matters most to each person.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and experiment with different behaviors. Her practice also incorporates Solution-Focused ideas to set clear goals and Motivational Interviewing to strengthen a person’s own reasons for change. Sheryl’s background supports work with complex issues such as bipolar disorder, ADHD, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and attachment concerns.
Sessions are offered in English and conducted online by video, phone, chat, or text messaging. Sheryl holds a Texas LCSW license, TX LCSW 04755, and offers a calm, practical style aimed at helping people regain steadiness and move toward meaningful change.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Sheryl combines Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shape online work. Client-Centered Therapy means sessions focus on what matters to the person, with the therapist listening carefully and reflecting back what is most important. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Sheryl will work collaboratively to determine which methods match a person’s goals and preferences. Together they set clear, realistic aims and try approaches that fit the client’s day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or text messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or when written communication feels easier. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit around work, caregiving, or other routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English