About Sherile
Sherile Smith is a licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of practice. She works from Louisiana and offers therapy in English, including to international clients. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and career concerns, and other life challenges.
Her style centers on listening first. She asks what matters most and builds a simple plan with each person. Sessions are collaborative - clients set goals and Sherile supports progress.
Background and approach
She aims to help people feel heard and regain more balance in daily life. Over a long career she has used several practical approaches. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and shift behavior.
Client-Centered Therapy provides space for people to lead the conversation while the therapist reflects and clarifies. She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address connection and communication issues that show up in close relationships. Trauma-Focused Therapy is part of her work when past events keep affecting present functioning.
Sherile assists with a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety, including addictions, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, body image, chronic illness, codependency, and career transitions. She includes coaching elements when people want focused skill work alongside therapy.
How Sherile’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person in the room. The therapist follows what you say, reflects feelings, and helps you find your own direction; this approach fits people who want a steady, empathetic space to talk through issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets specific thoughts and behaviors. It teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, stress, mood, and unhelpful patterns by practicing new responses and homework between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sherile will talk with each person about goals and preferences and together you will decide which methods to use. That collaborative planning makes it easier to try different tools and adjust the plan as needs change.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets you see facial cues and have longer conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or continuing a conversation between longer sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Iowa
- Languages
- English
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