Mark Sherling
Practical counseling with a person-centered focus
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Mark
Mark Sherling is a licensed professional counselor who uses a person-centered style with a focus on cognitive behavioral therapy. He keeps sessions straightforward and practical so people can make small changes that add up. He aims to help clients recognize strengths and build habits that improve day-to-day life.
Mark draws on 13 years of experience supporting people through stressful times. He works with a range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, anger, and parenting challenges.
Background and approach
He also addresses relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related problems, bipolar disorder, ADHD, career shifts, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes. Mark describes therapy as a collaborative process where the client sets goals and he offers tools to reach them. In sessions he listens first and then helps pick practical strategies from cognitive behavioral approaches.
That can include identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing new behaviors, and developing routines that reduce stress. He keeps language plain and focuses on what people can do between sessions to see progress. Mark has a long background working with people in crisis and with diverse needs across different settings.
He believes many avoid help out of misconceptions about therapy, so he works to make the process normal and approachable. His practice style emphasizes steady growth over quick fixes. He sees online work as a way to make therapy fit into busy lives.
Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled to match the client’s availability and preferences.
Therapeutic techniques and online care that fit busy lives
Mark blends person-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral work to make online sessions both supportive and practical. Person-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so clients feel heard and safe. It helps when someone needs empathy and space to sort through feelings. Cognitive behavioral techniques look at the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teach concrete skills to change them. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose strategies that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean trying different techniques and adjusting as progress is made so the plan stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into school, work, or parenting schedules and to stay consistent. Licensed professionals can use the different formats to practice skills between meetings and to keep momentum when life gets busy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
Next step
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