About Gretchen
Gretchen Sherrill is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship strain. She practices in Virginia and brings 12 years of experience to conversations about coping with life changes and personal setbacks. Gretchen uses plain, evidence-based techniques to help clients break down big problems into smaller steps.
Sessions focus on building practical skills for calmer thinking, steadier moods, and clearer communication. She supports people coping with social anxiety, isolation, guilt, and shame by teaching tools they can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Clients can expect a collaborative approach. Gretchen listens, asks what matters most, and tailors strategies to fit everyday life. Work often includes practicing new ways to respond to stress and testing small behavior changes to see what helps.
She also has experience addressing issues that can complicate emotional life, such as abandonment concerns, attachment challenges, body image, caregiver stress, and problems that arise from major life events like illness or loss. Her background includes supporting people through adoption and foster care questions and blended family dynamics.
Gretchen holds the credential Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, and is also a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC. She offers sessions in English and provides a range of online formats to suit different needs. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect a person to the right schedule and format.
Her aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Sessions emphasize skills you can use right away, and she works with each person to set realistic goals and track small wins.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Gretchen uses straightforward, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that help people change how they react to stress and anxiety. One common approach focuses on teaching practical coping skills and step-by-step behavior changes to reduce avoidance and increase daily functioning; this is useful for work on social anxiety, phobias, and stress management. Another approach emphasizes identifying and reshaping unhelpful thinking patterns that fuel low mood and worry, which can help with depression and persistent anxiety.Finding the right mix of techniques is a collaborative process. Gretchen works with each person to choose methods that match their goals, daily routines, and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts plans based on what is working or what needs more practice.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Messaging and live chat support shorter, frequent touchpoints and skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and keep steady progress over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Florida
- Languages
- English
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