About Sheryl
Sheryl Harrington is a licensed clinical social worker with 27 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with grief, and work through relationship and intimacy concerns. Sheryl speaks plainly and helps clients identify strengths they can use right away.
She centers sessions around the person's own story. Sheryl uses a client-centered approach that treats the client as the expert on their life. She combines that with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Sheryl also draws on solution-focused and motivational techniques to set clear, achievable goals. When trauma is part of the picture she adapts her work to address safety and healing at a pace the person can handle. Sessions are aimed at small, steady steps rather than big leaps.
Her practice covers a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety and stress, including parenting strain, caregiving stress, chronic illness challenges, career issues, and attachment questions. She helps people sort priorities and build routines that reduce overwhelm. Sheryl works with adults in Texas and offers sessions through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
The first step is a short questionnaire to find a good match and then scheduling based on therapist availability.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Sheryl commonly uses client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered work means conversations focus on the person’s experience and strengths, and the therapist follows the client’s pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy adds concrete exercises to notice and shift thoughts and behaviors that keep stress and anxiety going.She also uses solution-focused and motivational techniques to set small, reachable goals. The therapist and client decide together what to try first and adjust the plan over time. That collaborative process helps people test changes between sessions and come back with what worked and what didn’t.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful when visual cues and a fuller conversation matter. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text messaging can work for brief check-ins, logging progress, or getting quick support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep work moving forward while addressing anxiety and other concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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