About Sherry
Sherry Friedman is a licensed professional counselor and a clinical mental health counselor with twelve years of experience. She practices from North Carolina and brings a warm, interactive style to sessions. Sherry combines talk and body-focused work to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and life transitions.
Sherry draws on somatic approaches alongside attachment-based and client-centered methods. She explains feelings in plain terms and helps people notice how the body holds stress.
Background and approach
Sessions often include breath work, grounding, and gentle attention to bodily responses as a way to reduce overwhelm. Her background includes a Master of Arts in School Psychology, a Master of Science in Gifted Education, and a Master of Science in Clinical Counseling.
Sherry holds the credentials LPC and LCMHC and has worked with a range of concerns such as trauma, grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, and career questions. In sessions she aims to build rapport and emotional safety. She listens closely and helps people identify strengths, set healthy boundaries, and try concrete tools for coping.
The work often focuses on understanding attachment patterns, healing from abandonment or family-of-origin hurts, and improving communication. Sherry offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are billed through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to therapist availability.
How Somatic and Attachment Work Online
Somatic work focuses on how the body stores tension and stress. In online sessions this can mean guided breath work, posture checks, and simple movement prompts that help reduce anxiety and increase calm. It suits people who notice physical sensations with emotions and want practical ways to feel steadier.Attachment-based work looks at patterns in relationships and how early bonds shape current trust and communication. Through careful listening and reflection, this approach helps people identify familiar dynamics, repair emotional reactions, and build clearer boundaries. It is useful for those dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, or repeated relationship struggles.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to each person's goals, needs, and preferences, adjusting pace and techniques as trust grows.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to use tools between meetings. Licensed professionals can guide body-focused and attachment work effectively over these formats while adapting techniques to each person's comfort and circumstances.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, South Carolina, Rhode Island
- Languages
- English