About Sherry
Sherry Escudero is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in New York. She brings two decades of experience helping people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions. She works in a direct, down-to-earth way so parents and busy adults can follow the work between sessions.
Her background includes community clinics, foster care settings, and work with military personnel. That variety shaped a practical style that focuses on daily coping and clear steps.
Background and approach
She listens first to understand what matters most to each person. Sherry uses client-centered methods to build a helpful relationship. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Sessions typically include talking through current problems, setting small goals, and practicing skills to reduce anxiety or manage mood. She often helps people dealing with relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, trauma, workplace issues, and caregiver burnout. She also supports those managing bipolar symptoms, ADHD, seasonal affective changes, and the fallout from disasters or separation.
Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person. Sherry aims to make therapy manageable for people with busy lives by focusing on what feels most useful right now.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy means the therapist focuses on the person's priorities and builds sessions around what the client says matters most. This approach helps when someone needs a listening space and a trusted partner to sort through feelings and choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new behaviors to reduce anxiety or change mood. CBT can be useful for worry, low mood, and managing stress reactions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. Patients and the therapist decide together which techniques feel most helpful over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face without travel. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and suit shorter check-ins. Live chat or text-based messaging can help keep momentum between sessions or fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to use therapeutic tools consistently while balancing family, work, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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