About Sherry
Dr. Sherry Aaker is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia. She brings ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and self-esteem concerns.
Her manner is compassionate and direct, focused on practical steps that fit everyday life. She often helps people who are coping with major life changes such as divorce, workplace stress, caregiving strain, and midlife transitions. She also addresses intimacy-related issues, sleep difficulties, anger, and feelings of emptiness or shame.
How Sherry works
Sessions combine listening with concrete tools so people can try things between meetings. Her work draws on a mix of evidence-informed approaches. She uses strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to shift unhelpful patterns and clarify personal values.
She also employs attachment-based ideas and dialectical behavior therapy skills when relationship patterns or strong emotions get in the way. Dr. Aaker describes her perspective as faith-informed, and she integrates clients' beliefs when they are important to the person.
She aims to help clients build resilience, manage distress, and reconnect with meaning and purpose. The focus is practical progress rather than quick fixes. People seeking help can expect a warm, goal-oriented collaboration.
Sessions emphasize clear next steps, coping skills, and regular check-ins on what is and isn't working. The pace and priorities are set together to match each person's needs and life demands.
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What Sherry works with
The areas below are the ones Sherry selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches applied to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small committed steps toward those values. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where uncertainty or avoidance gets in the way. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with practical strategies to reduce distress and improve functioning. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and emotional responses, and it can help when intimacy issues or repeated relationship struggles are present.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and immediate needs and then recommend techniques to try. Sessions are collaborative so adjustments can be made if a method does not feel like the right fit.
Online therapy with this practice is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and interactive exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging offer quick touchpoints and ongoing support between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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