Sherry Friedman, LPC, LCMHC
Compassionate counselor who blends skills and reflection
Book with SherryWorks with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
How Sherry works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC, LCMHC
- Licensed in
- North Carolina, South Carolina, Rhode Island
- Years in practice
- 12
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Sherry
Sherry Friedman is a licensed professional counselor with twelve years of clinical experience. She practices from North Carolina and draws on a wide-ranging background in counseling and education. She combines practical tools with reflective work to help people manage emotions like anger, grief, anxiety, and stress.
Sherry uses a warm, interactive style in sessions. She emphasizes listening and building rapport so people feel heard. Sessions often include mindfulness exercises and skills people can practice between meetings to reduce reactivity and improve coping.
Background and approach
Her training spans Jungian ideas and attachment-informed approaches, and she also draws on client-centered and emotionally focused techniques. That mix helps her approach problems from several angles, including how early relationships, current stressors, and internal patterns keep issues going.
Sherry often supports people dealing with parenting strain, relationship and family concerns, life changes, career stress, and mood challenges such as depression or bipolar mood swings. She also works with those facing trauma, compassion fatigue, and struggles around self-esteem or identity.
Practical work in sessions can include emotion regulation skills from dialectical behavior therapy, mindful awareness practices, and conversations about meaning and life purpose. She also offers coaching-style support for career decisions and goal setting. Sherry writes and shares resources drawn from her own experience to supplement therapy.
People who prefer an empathic, talk-forward approach that mixes practical skills with deeper reflection tend to find her style helpful. She offers sessions in English and provides online options to fit different schedules.
What Sherry works with
Everything Sherry lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Sherry's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Approaches Sherry lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Sherry works from attachment-informed and client-centered perspectives alongside skills-based methods. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape feelings and reactions today and can help with anger, trust, and connection issues. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening deeply and helping people name their feelings so they can make choices that match their values. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, provides concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which many people find useful when anger or mood swings are present.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Sherry will discuss your goals, preferences, and the problems you bring and then suggest which methods to try. You and the therapist will check in and adjust the approach as needed so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break at work or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions, get brief coaching, or use written reflection when speaking is difficult. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping the work focused on managing emotion, building skills, and making meaningful change.
Questions people ask about Sherry
What concerns does Sherry address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, anger, grief, trauma, parenting strain, relationship and family issues, mood disorders, ADHD, and career questions.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and interactive with an emphasis on listening. Sessions mix practical skills, mindfulness, and reflective conversation.
What is her clinical background?
She has twelve years of clinical experience and holds graduate degrees in school psychology, gifted education, and clinical counseling.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is listed as LPC and LCMHC, with practice in North Carolina and licensure noted for the Carolinas and other states in her biography.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.