About Sheryl
Sheryl Mahon is a licensed professional counselor with 18 years of experience. She practices from Arizona and focuses on helping people through grief, trauma, depression, stress, and major life changes. Her style is practical and collaborative.
She aims to help clients identify what they want to change and find ways to get there. Sheryl works with people facing caregiver strain, hospice and end-of-life concerns, chronic illness and pain, and issues tied to attachment and abandonment.
How Sheryl works
She also addresses anxiety, sleeping problems, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue. She uses several approaches so work can be matched to each person's needs. Her approach is client-centered and relationship-focused.
Sessions emphasize clear goals, honest conversation, and tools you can practice between meetings. She believes the therapeutic relationship is a partnership based on trust, respect, and steady effort from both people. Sheryl mixes evidence-informed techniques to suit the situation.
That can mean working on thinking patterns, building coping skills, or addressing emotional bonds and attachment wounds. She helps people break problems into manageable steps and teaches skills to handle intense feelings. If someone chooses to work with her, Sheryl aims to create a steady, readable plan.
She encourages questions and makes space for straight talk about progress and setbacks. The focus is on finding realistic changes that fit everyday life.
Sheryl lists 11 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Arizona |
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Online support options
How her approaches work in online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at emotional bonds and patterns that shape relationships. It helps people understand how early or current attachment concerns affect trust, closeness, and reactions to stress. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the process. The therapist listens, reflects, and helps the client name goals and build their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful thought patterns and behavior in daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. She works with each person to decide which methods fit best based on needs and goals. This is a collaborative process and can change over time as progress is made or new concerns arise.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into workdays, caregiving routines, or medical schedules while keeping the focus on practical, actionable work.
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