About Sherri
Sherri Johnson is a mental health professional practicing in Maryland. She holds an MD and is an LCSW-C, and brings 26 years of experience to her work. She focuses on building respectful, compassionate relationships with people who come to therapy.
She helps with relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and career stress. She also works with anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, addiction, and ADHD. Additional focus areas include grief, parenting strain, body image, and chronic illness challenges.
How Sherri works
Her approach is collaborative and practical. She adapts conversation and planning to fit each person's situation rather than using a single formula. Sessions aim to identify small, workable steps that address daily problems and longer-term goals.
Sherri uses a mix of approaches to match a person’s needs. That can include attachment-based work to understand relationship patterns, client-centered listening to clarify feelings, and cognitive-behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thinking. Mindfulness and elements of dialectical behavior therapy are used when helpful to build coping skills.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different schedules. Sessions are provided in English and are available to people located in Maryland. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to connect a person and schedule sessions.
Sherri lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Sherri works with
The areas below are the ones Sherri selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCSW-C |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Sherri commonly blends attachment-based work and cognitive-behavioral techniques in online sessions. Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in important relationships and helps people see how early experiences shape current reactions. Cognitive-behavioral techniques look at thoughts and behaviors and teach practical skills for reducing anxiety, improving sleep, or changing unhelpful habits.She also draws on client-centered listening and mindfulness to help people clarify values and calm racing thoughts. Finding the right mix is part of the process; she collaborates with each person to choose approaches that match their goals and preferences rather than imposing a single method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can suit brief check-ins or day-to-day coaching. These options offer flexibility for different schedules and make it easier to keep regular appointments while balancing work, family, or medical needs.
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