About Sherry
Sherry Lyerly-Tarner is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 13 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma, low self-esteem, or major life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward, focused on practical steps people can use right away.
Sherry uses a blended approach that draws on proven therapeutic methods alongside body-centered tools. She often brings mindfulness, breath work, and gentle movement into sessions to help clients reconnect with their bodies when anxiety or trauma feel stuck.
Background and approach
She also draws on nutrition and wellness ideas to support overall balance when that is helpful. Her background includes work with people recovering from abusive relationships, those facing separation and divorce, and clients dealing with complicated family arrangements.
She has led yoga classes in programs for eating disorder recovery and uses that experience to support people working on body image and disordered eating concerns. Sherry facilitates individual and couples counseling and runs workshops and groups on stress reduction and mindfulness. She works from North Carolina and offers services in English.
Her approach aims to help people build steady coping skills, increase self-awareness, and regain a sense of control. People who choose her for support can expect practical tools, gentle somatic practices, and a focus on real-life changes. She helps clients set clear goals and tries to make progress feel manageable.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Sherry uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside mindfulness and somatic practices. Mindfulness helps people learn to notice thoughts and sensations without getting swept away, which is useful for anxiety and stress. Somatic approaches focus on how the body holds tension and teach simple movement or breathing skills to reduce that physical hold.She also integrates practical coping skills drawn from established therapies to help with relationship conflict, trauma recovery, and life transitions. Choosing the right mix of approaches is collaborative - the therapist and client decide together which tools to try based on goals, needs, and what feels comfortable.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for working with these methods. Video calls let the therapist observe body language and guide breathing or grounding exercises in real time. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be an easier way to check in when a full video session isn't possible. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick access to coping ideas between sessions and can be useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when someone prefers writing over speaking.
These options make it easier to fit work on anxiety, relationships, and trauma into a busy life and to use a mix of conversation and body-focused tools in ways that suit each person.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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