About Sherry
Dr. Sherry Bland focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or big life changes. She works with clients who struggle with relationships, intimacy questions, grief, trauma and abuse, or living with conditions such as bipolar disorder and ADHD.
Dr. Bland uses a calm, practical style and aims to make it easy to talk about what matters most. She brings 11 years of clinical experience as an LCMHC in North Carolina.
How Sherry works
That background includes work with people facing eating or sleeping struggles, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. She also has experience addressing infidelity, veteran and armed forces issues, social anxiety, and career concerns. Her focus includes parenting stress and the stress that comes with major life transitions.
In sessions she adapts methods to each person. She draws on client-centered therapy to follow what the person needs in the moment. She uses cognitive behavioral tools to help change thinking patterns that keep problems stuck.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques are used to build awareness and motivation for change. Dr. Bland describes counseling as a collaborative process.
Together a client and she set small, concrete goals and practice skills between sessions. Her style is straightforward and warm, aiming to help people speak freely and try doable strategies. Therapy is available in English.
Sessions may be held by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging depending on format and scheduling choices.
Sherry lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
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
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Approach-based care delivered online
Client-centered therapy starts by listening and following what matters most to the person in the room. It helps when someone needs acceptance, clarity, and a therapist who responds to their priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaching practical skills to change them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is something to figure out together. The therapist will work with each person to try methods that match their goals and preferences. Decisions about techniques and pacing are collaborative and can shift as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexible options. Video is useful for a conversation similar to in-person work, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats help people fit therapy into work, family, or travel schedules while using the approaches above.
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