About Sherry
Sherry Coleman is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) in Illinois with 30 years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing anxiety, stress, addictions, and major life changes. She aims to make the first step easier by offering steady support and practical guidance.
Sherry listens without judgment and helps clients set clear, manageable goals. Sessions focus on building motivation, strengthening boundaries, and improving self-esteem. She works with issues like relationship strain, career concerns, and compassion fatigue so people can move forward with more confidence.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on evidence-based tools that help people change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She uses techniques to increase awareness, manage difficult emotions, and commit to values-based action. These tools are explained plainly and practiced in ways that fit each person’s life.
Sherry also addresses specific struggles such as body image, codependency, substance and process addictions, eating and food-related issues, and hoarding. She has experience with multicultural concerns, veterans and armed forces issues, and the effects of prejudice and discrimination. People can expect a warm, straightforward style that mixes skill-building with compassionate listening.
Sherry helps clients break problems into small steps and track progress over time. Her goal is practical change that feels achievable and relevant to daily life.
How evidence-based approaches fit into online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that align with their values. It’s useful for anxiety, stress, and making meaningful life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting patterns in thoughts and behaviors and then testing new, healthier responses to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and building stronger interpersonal boundaries, which can help with addiction-related urges and relationship strain.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about goals, try different techniques, and adjust together based on what works. That way the plan fits each person’s needs, preferences, and pace.
Online sessions use video calls, phone conversations, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people practice skills face-to-face and maintain visual connection. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a quick check-in. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief updates, tracking progress, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life, or busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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