About Sheri
Sheri Bettenhausen is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and trauma. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps to make daily life more manageable. Sheri aims to create a calm space where clients can say what they need to say without judgment.
She often helps people cope with grief and loss and with changes that come from parenting or big life transitions.
Background and approach
Her work also addresses sleep problems, anger, self-esteem struggles, and issues connected to mood and attention. Sheri supports people facing relationship and family-of-origin concerns as well as those navigating identity and sexuality questions. Sheri uses straightforward, skills-based methods so clients can try new ways of responding between sessions.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thought patterns and on Dialectical Behavior Therapy for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. Solution-Focused and Trauma-Focused techniques help move toward specific goals and process difficult past events. Sessions are offered in English and conducted from Kentucky.
Sheri integrates practical strategies with a supportive, nonjudgmental approach. She encourages small, achievable steps and checks in on progress over time. People who partner with Sheri typically leave sessions with clear next steps to practice.
She focuses on usable tools for everyday life and supports clients as they test new habits and perspectives. Her goal is to help clients find steadier footing and clearer direction as they work through anxiety and related concerns.
How these approaches work online
Sheri commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors; this approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling relationship stressors. Both approaches focus on skills you can practice between sessions to see gradual change.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they choose or blend methods and adjust the plan as progress is tracked and priorities shift.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill coaching and deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a hands-free option is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, short problem-solving, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into workdays, caregiving schedules, or times when leaving home is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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