About Sherry
Sherry Martell is a licensed social worker with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers steady, practical support for depression, grief, relationship strain, and major life changes. She also focuses on caregiver stress and mood disorders.
She favors a compassionate, client-centered style that keeps each person’s goals at the center of sessions. Conversations are collaborative and paced to match what the person needs that week.
Background and approach
The therapist listens for patterns that feed worry and low mood, then works with clients to try clearer ways of thinking and behaving. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, used here, breaks problems down into thoughts, feelings, and actions. That makes it easier to test small changes and notice real effects.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are offered when emotion regulation and stress tolerance need practical tools for day-to-day life. Sessions aim to build reliable coping skills rather than quick fixes. Sherry helps people create routines, plan for difficult moments, and practice new responses to old triggers.
When caregiving or loss has worn someone down, she focuses on restoring energy and manageable boundaries. Her work is straightforward and goal oriented. People leave with specific strategies to try between sessions and a clearer sense of what progress looks like.
She practices in South Carolina and conducts sessions in English.
Online approaches for anxiety and coping
Sherry uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, listening-based space where the person sets the pace and goals. This approach helps people feel heard and more able to notice what matters most to them.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. CBT gives clear exercises and steps that make it easier to manage anxiety and low mood.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are introduced when stronger emotion regulation and stress tolerance are needed. These are practical techniques for handling intense feelings and reducing impulsive responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Plans are adjusted as progress and daily life change.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls allow deeper conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text work well for brief check-ins or when typing helps organize thoughts. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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