About Sherry
Sherry Lyerly-Tarner helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, low self-esteem, and big life changes. She is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina with 13 years of experience. Her approach aims to make therapy practical and understandable for busy lives.
Sherry uses a blend of evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside body-centered and experiential tools. She draws on mindfulness, yoga-informed practices, and somatic methods to help people reconnect with their bodies and manage strong emotions.
How Sherry works
These methods are offered as complements to talk therapy rather than replacements. Her background includes work supporting people through divorce, blended family challenges, abandonment issues, and recovery from abusive relationships. She has also worked with concerns such as disordered eating and body image and brings experience from leading yoga in treatment settings for eating disorders.
Sherry works with adults on issues that often overlap, including caregiver stress, substance use concerns, codependency, communication problems, dissociation, and aging-related challenges. She aims to meet each person where they are and tailor strategies to daily life and realistic goals. In sessions she offers practical tools for grounding, managing anxiety, improving communication, and coping with transitions.
People can expect an individualized plan that mixes talking, skills practice, and experiential exercises when appropriate. Her goal is to help clients build resilience and clearer direction for the future.
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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Sherry blends talk-based, body-aware, and experiential methods to help people heal. Cognitive and skills-oriented techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thinking and building practical coping skills for anxiety, stress, and relationship problems. Mindfulness and somatic approaches help people notice bodily responses and learn grounding practices that reduce overwhelm and improve emotion regulation.Finding the right fit is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, comfort level, and day-to-day needs. Together they’ll try strategies, see what helps, and adjust the plan over time to make progress toward clearer priorities and better coping.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for deeper conversation and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief check-ins, written reflections, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping treatment consistent and practical.
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