About Sherry
Sherry Burton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with seven years holding that license. She has spent decades in roles that centered on supporting people through stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, and family conflict. Sherry speaks plainly and meets people where they are in life.
Before becoming an LPC, Sherry worked in social services and juvenile supervision, gaining long-term experience with individuals facing difficult life changes. That background shaped a practical approach to everyday problems.
How Sherry works
She focuses on helping people manage mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, addictions, and trauma and abuse reactions. Her sessions aim to be respectful and compassionate. She listens first, then helps people set realistic goals.
Conversations and a shared plan steer the work, with attention to communication problems, intimacy issues, parenting stress, and career concerns. Sherry also supports people facing eating and sleeping problems, caregivers under strain, aging and geriatric questions, and challenges like codependency or control issues. She works with matters tied to abandonment, attachment, and body image in straightforward, achievable steps.
Therapy includes coaching-style guidance when useful, and tools to cope with life transitions, anger, guilt, or shame. Sherry encourages small, concrete changes that add up over time. She sees progress as a sequence of steady steps rather than quick fixes.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Sherry uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach centers on structured problem-solving and coping skills to reduce anxiety and manage stress. This involves identifying specific triggers, practicing new responses, and building routines that improve sleep and daily functioning. Another approach emphasizes emotion-focused work for trauma, grief, and relationship strain. It helps people name feelings, understand patterns, and try different ways of communicating and relating to others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they reassess and adjust the plan as progress is made or goals shift.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a lunch break. Live chat or text messaging can help with brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to maintain consistent care and keep therapy part of a real schedule.
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