Sherile Smith
Calm, practical counseling for life transitions
- Credentials
- LMHC, LPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana, Iowa
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sherile
Sherile Smith is a licensed counselor with 25 years of clinical experience. She offers a steady, straightforward approach that centers on each person's goals and real-life needs. Sherile emphasizes listening first so clients feel heard and can guide the pace of work.
She uses clear, practical methods to address stress, anxiety, depression, and emotional struggles. Sherile also addresses relationship concerns, parenting stress, trauma and abuse, addictions, and issues related to identity and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Her practice includes support for people navigating career shifts, burnout, and compassion fatigue. In sessions she works collaboratively to build a plan that matches what the client wants to change. Conversations focus on practical steps and skills as well as on understanding patterns that get in the way.
Sherile explains options plainly and helps clients choose what fits their life. Her training and tools include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused ideas about connection, and trauma-focused approaches. These are used to help with coping, communication problems, boundaries, and repairing difficult relationships.
Sherile practices in Louisiana and offers services in English. She accepts international clients and provides several remote session formats to fit busy schedules. The first step is a short matching questionnaire to connect with her and schedule a session.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on hearing the person without judgment and building goals together. It helps when someone needs a space to be understood and to find their own next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and habits and teaches concrete skills to change them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress.Sherile treats choosing an approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about symptoms, life circumstances, and goals, then recommend one or a combination of methods. That collaborative process lets the client try a practical plan and adjust it over time.
Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging, which makes scheduling easier for busy families and people with limited travel options. These options let work continue between appointments using brief messages or written check-ins when helpful. The variety of formats supports flexible routines and lets therapists and clients focus on what helps most for day-to-day life.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Iowa
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Sherile
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point