Sherri Johnson
Compassionate clinician for practical family concerns
- Credentials
- MD, LCSW-C
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sherri
Sherri Johnson is a licensed clinician in Maryland with over 26 years of experience. She holds an MD and is a licensed clinical social worker - clinical (LCSW-C). She aims to make beginning therapy straightforward and respectful for people who are worried about change.
Her style is direct and compassionate. She listens first and shapes sessions around each person’s needs. She focuses on building clarity and practical steps rather than long explanations.
Background and approach
She emphasizes respect and sensitivity in every conversation. Sherri works with a wide range of concerns, including relationship strain, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, addictions, self-esteem, and parenting. She also helps people facing grief, career transitions, compassion fatigue, and challenges like ADHD or bipolar disorder.
Her background includes work with adoption and foster care issues, aging concerns, chronic illness, and body image problems. Her clinical approach pulls from attachment-based methods, client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and mindfulness. That mix lets her balance understanding life patterns with practical skills practice.
Sessions can focus on insight, skill building, or both depending on what a person needs. Sherri offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and then schedules according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationships. In short sessions this means identifying recurring patterns in how people relate and practicing new ways of connecting that feel safer and more reliable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It usually involves clear steps - noticing unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and trying different behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals and preferences. Some people need more skills practice, others want time to process past hurts; the plan adjusts as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video and phone sessions allow real-time conversation similar to an office visit, while chat and messaging can help people keep momentum between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain continuity when schedules change.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Sherri
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- Stop at any point