About Sheryl
Sheryl Harrington, LCSW, welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or relationship strain. She listens carefully and helps clients name what matters most to them. She frames therapy as a collaborative process that builds on the client’s strengths and life experience.
Sheryl uses straightforward, practical methods to help people manage symptoms and make clear choices. She draws on client-centered techniques to follow the person’s lead and on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot thinking patterns that keep problems alive.
Background and approach
She also uses solution-focused and motivational approaches to set small, achievable goals and build momentum. With 27 years of work in Texas, she has supported people facing trauma and abuse, parenting and caregiving stress, chronic health challenges, and major life transitions. Her background includes helping those coping with bipolar disorder, ADHD, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Sheryl helps people break larger issues into manageable steps so progress feels real. She respects each person’s pace and adjusts methods to fit their needs.
People who choose her often want practical tools they can use between sessions. Sheryl explains techniques in everyday language and focuses on what will make daily life easier. She encourages realistic plans and small changes that add up over time.
Approach-driven online care that fits your life
Sheryl often combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral strategies to address immediate problems and the thinking that fuels them. Client-centered therapy means she listens closely, follows the client’s priorities, and builds on their strengths. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with practical skills that reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also uses solution-focused and motivational techniques when appropriate to help clients set concrete goals and stay motivated. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the pace they want to take.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setting works better. Live chat and text messaging can be a quick way to check in, follow up on goals, or get brief coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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