About Sherry
Sherry Rantz is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 28 years of practice in Texas. She draws on long experience in independent practice, social services, schools, and teaching to help adults and teens navigate worry, grief, and life changes. Her style is straightforward and respectful.
She focuses on people’s strengths and practical steps forward. Sherry helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and grief. She supports those facing career shifts, parenting strain, sleep problems, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Phobias, panic attacks, and social anxiety are also within her areas of focus. She uses a mix of approaches to meet each person’s needs. In sessions she listens carefully and adapts to each person’s rhythm.
Conversations can include noticing unhelpful thoughts, building small skills, and trying new behaviors between meetings. She pays attention to identity-related concerns such as LGBT issues, gender dysphoria, and experiences of prejudice or discrimination. Sherry also works with adults and teens dealing with autism, intellectual disability, and communication or family problems.
She addresses difficult feelings like shame, guilt, isolation, and anger in a direct and supportive way. Her aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes. People who choose her often want clear tools and compassionate guidance.
She helps set practical goals, checks progress, and shifts course when needed. Getting started means taking a small first step toward clearer days and better routines.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to actions that match their values; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new behaviors to reduce symptoms and build coping skills; it is useful for panic, phobias, and sleep problems. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist follows the client's lead and helps them find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals, needs, and preferences. That plan can be adjusted as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for a conversational session with visual cues, phone can suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, chat or text work for quick updates or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, school, or parenting demands while keeping consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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