About Gretchen
Gretchen Sherrill is a licensed mental health counselor and a licensed professional counselor practicing in Virginia. She brings 12 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, relationship strain, and major life changes. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, focused on practical steps people can use between sessions.
She emphasizes building coping skills that fit daily life. Sessions often include concrete tools for stress reduction, clearer communication, and handling strong emotions.
Background and approach
Gretchen helps people work through feelings of guilt, shame, and social withdrawal at a steady, manageable pace. Her work centers on collaboration. Clients set goals and she offers strategies aligned with those aims.
The process is meant to strengthen resilience and restore a sense of purpose after loss, transition, or prolonged stress. Gretchen tailors her approach to each person’s needs rather than applying one set method to everyone. She pays attention to attachment patterns, body image concerns, and issues linked to adoption or foster care when those topics come up.
She also supports people facing caregiver stress, cancer-related emotional challenges, and the fallout from natural or human-caused disasters. Gretchen has professional licenses in both Florida and Virginia - LMHC and LPC respectively - and uses those years of practice to guide decision making. She offers sessions through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy fit into busy schedules.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Gretchen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on concrete skills and measurable progress. One common approach she uses teaches practical coping strategies for anxiety and stress, such as breathing techniques, behavioral experiments, and step-by-step plans to break down overwhelming tasks. These methods help reduce day-to-day distress and build confidence for facing difficult situations.Another approach centers on communication and attachment patterns. This work looks at how past relationships shape current reactions and teaches clearer ways to express needs and set boundaries. It can be especially useful for relationship strain, commitment worries, and improving trust after loss or separation.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Gretchen will discuss options, listen to goals, and tailor methods to what the client finds most helpful. The therapist and client make decisions collaboratively, adjusting strategies as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter, phone sessions require less internet bandwidth, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging lets clients share thoughts between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Florida
- Languages
- English
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