Sherry Gould-Hillhouse, LPC
Compassionate, practical therapy focused on body and mind
About Sherry
Sherry Gould-Hillhouse is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Texas. She brings three years of clinical experience and works from a person-centered stance. Sherry emphasizes practical work in sessions and listens for what matters most to each client.
She helps people managing addiction, trauma and grief. Her practice also addresses depression, bipolar symptoms, anger, intimacy concerns and self-esteem struggles. Sherry lists somatic approaches along with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in her work.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what a person wants to change and on small, doable steps toward that goal. Conversations may include attention to bodily experience and present-moment skills as part of building coping tools. She aims to create a calm space where a person can name problems and try different ways of responding.
Sherry supports people dealing with family breakup, communication problems, boundaries and codependency. She also addresses eating and substance concerns, workplace stress, emptiness, and grief. The emphasis is on straightforward tools and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She practices in Texas and meets with people in English. Sherry offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Getting started involves a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling a session once a person selects the Start Therapy button.
How her approaches work online and in the body
Sherry uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy alongside somatic-informed work to help people address hard problems. ACT focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that matter, which can help with depression, anxiety and life transitions. Attachment-based work pays attention to patterns in relationships and helps people try new ways of connecting and communicating.Somatic-informed work brings attention to bodily sensations and how the body holds stress or trauma. This can be helpful for people who notice tension, panic, dissociation, or physical responses tied to difficult memories. Together these approaches give verbal and bodily ways to understand and respond to problems, and the therapist will work with clients to find the right mix for their needs and goals.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to allow flexibility around work, family, and daily life. These options make it easier to keep up with therapy between sessions, try brief check-ins, and practice skills in real situations while staying connected with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English