About Sheryl
Sheryl Harrington greets people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or painful experiences. She focuses on helping individuals facing relationship struggles, trauma, parenting pressures, grief, and life transitions. Sheryl speaks plainly and aims to make first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
She practices from a person-centered stance that treats each client as the expert on their own life. Sessions prioritize listening and building on strengths so people can try small, useful changes.
How Sheryl works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is also part of her approach, helping clients spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Sheryl has 27 years of experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, working in Texas. That background has included a wide range of concerns such as anger, self-esteem, career stress, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care questions, attachment issues, chronic illness, caregiving strain, and body image concerns. In practical sessions she uses goal-focused techniques like solution-focused work and motivational interviewing to help clients set and reach manageable goals. She blends these methods with deeper conversations about meaning and life choices when that fits the client's needs.
Sheryl aims to collaborate on a plan that fits each person's goals and everyday life. She encourages taking one step at a time and adjusting the approach as progress is made.
Sheryl lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Sheryl works with
The areas below are the ones Sheryl 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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Sheryl uses Client-Centered Therapy to focus on each person's experience and priorities, offering empathic listening and support while clients lead the pace and topics of work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify patterns of thought that contribute to distress and to practice small behavior changes that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with clients to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress or new concerns emerge. The process is meant to be flexible and responsive rather than fixed.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversation and visual connection, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quicker check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These formats make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or medical appointments while maintaining continuity of care.
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