About Sheri
Sheri Bell-O'Gara is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with nearly 29 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, trauma, depression, and related struggles. She offers straightforward, compassionate support and uses approaches that fit each person rather than forcing a single method on everyone. Sheri often draws on cognitive behavioral methods to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
She combines that with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas and mindfulness practices to build tolerance for difficult feelings and clarify values.
Background and approach
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is part of her work with trauma when it is a good fit. Her background includes long-term care settings and work with hospice populations, plus experience supporting veterans and people coping with serious illness or loss. That range means Sheri is comfortable addressing grief, end-of-life concerns, caregiver stress, and complex reactions to trauma.
Sessions tend to be warm and down-to-earth. Sheri aims to meet people where they are and uses plain language to explain tools and goals. She also believes a bit of humor can help during hard moments and looks for ways to bring relief alongside the work.
People can connect with her from Indiana through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She helps clients decide which approach will be most useful for their situation and adjusts plans as needs change.
Using proven approaches in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice and accept difficult thoughts and feelings while identifying actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and making steady progress toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and practicing new skills to reduce symptoms like worry or insomnia. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused approach that can help reduce the intensity of disturbing memories when it fits a person's needs.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sheri collaborates with each person to choose or combine methods based on their goals, history, and what feels manageable. She adjusts the plan over time so sessions remain practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skill teaching and deeper conversations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in feels best. Live chat and text can be used for shorter check-ins, message-based reflection, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep working consistently toward change.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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