About Sheryl
Sheryl Mahon is a licensed professional counselor with 18 years of clinical experience. She works from Arizona and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes. Her style is collaborative and straightforward.
Sheryl helps people identify what they want to change and then tries different strategies to reach those goals. She uses practical tools and adjusts her approach to fit each person's needs. Sessions emphasize clear communication and honest feedback so work can move forward.
Background and approach
Her background includes long involvement with grief, caregiver stress, end-of-life concerns, and chronic illness. She has supported people coping with trauma, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, and the ups and downs of bipolar mood patterns. Sheryl also addresses related issues such as attachment concerns, caregiving strain, and chronic pain.
Her methods draw from several approaches, including attachment-focused work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, emotionally-focused methods, and a client-centered stance. She combines these to match the situation rather than using one fixed method. Sheryl values a therapeutic partnership built on mutual trust and respect.
She asks questions, listens closely, and offers steps people can try between sessions. The aim is practical change - better coping, clearer choices, and more manageable day-to-day life.
Approach and online options for therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape coping and emotional patterns. It helps people notice how early bonds influence current reactions and supports building healthier ways to connect and manage stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It offers practical exercises for changing unhelpful thinking and building new habits to reduce anxiety and depression.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to choose and adjust methods based on needs, goals, and what feels helpful. That collaboration guides which techniques are emphasized in sessions.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes sessions easier to fit into a busy life. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a brief check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options increase flexibility and let people keep consistent care around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Arizona, California
- Languages
- English
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