Sheryl Harrington
Calm guidance, practical steps, lasting change
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sheryl
Sheryl Harrington is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Texas with 27 years of experience. She meets people where they are and listens first. She emphasizes clients' strengths and treats each person as the expert on their own life.
Taking the first step toward therapy can feel hard, and she acknowledges that courage and effort. Her approach centers on practical tools and clear conversation. Sheryl uses Client-Centered Therapy to create space for people to tell their story and to build trust.
Background and approach
She draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thoughts and habits that keep problems going, and from Solution-Focused Therapy to set short-term, manageable goals. Sheryl works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and intimacy-related issues. She also addresses parenting, career stress, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and anger.
Her practice includes attention to linked issues such as attachment, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and body image. Sessions are intended to be collaborative and goal-oriented. She helps clients name small changes, try new behaviors, and review what works.
The plan evolves as the client’s needs change. Sheryl holds the LCSW credential - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and brings over two decades of clinical practice in Texas. She offers sessions in English and provides appointments via several remote formats.
How therapeutic approaches guide online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship. The therapist creates space for clients to tell their story and helps people find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and to try new behaviors. Solution-Focused Therapy keeps attention on practical steps and measurable short-term goals rather than long-term analysis.Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels right. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and flexible.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. These options let people meet from home, on a break, or while traveling. The variety of formats helps match therapy to busy lives and makes it easier to practice skills between sessions.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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