About Sherida
Sherida Newmister is a licensed clinical social worker with 27 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and major life changes. She practices from Indiana and uses a straightforward, team-based approach to therapy. Sherida meets people where they are emotionally and focuses on practical steps.
Sessions often begin by identifying immediate concerns and small goals. She emphasizes using a person’s strengths to change unhelpful thoughts, feelings, and habits.
How Sherida works
Her work includes supporting people with relationship strain, intimacy issues, addiction, anger, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses trauma, panic attacks, mood disorders, and problems like abandonment, impulsivity, and isolation. Sherida integrates approaches to fit each person’s needs rather than following a single method.
In sessions she blends acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive techniques, client-centered listening, and tools from dialectical behavior and EMDR when appropriate. This mix helps people build coping skills, reduce distress, and make clearer choices about their lives. Sherida treats the therapeutic relationship as a collaboration.
She encourages small experiments between sessions and practical skills people can try right away. For someone feeling overwhelmed, she offers steady guidance and straightforward strategies to move forward.
Sherida lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Sherida works with
The areas below are the ones Sherida selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches for online therapy and what they do
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate choices. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that move someone toward the life they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are linked and teaches concrete tools to change patterns that cause distress. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and many everyday problems. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, is a method used to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and the strong reactions they trigger.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences, then recommend methods that fit your situation. You and the therapist decide together which techniques to try and adjust the plan as you go.
Online therapy with Sherida uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make sessions more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging work well for ongoing check-ins, brief coaching, or when written interaction feels easier. These options help people fit therapy into work, family life, or different time zones while working with a licensed professional.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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