- ACT techniques
- CBT skills
- Mindfulness practice
About Sherry
Sherry Holder is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in North Carolina with four years of professional experience. She works with adults on stress, anxiety, relationships, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, and depression. She conducts sessions in English and uses a range of evidence-informed methods to address these issues.
Sherry focuses on understanding how early family patterns shape current feelings and behavior. She helps people notice repeated roles, expectations, and communication habits that link back to the family they grew up in. Conversations center on what is happening now and how past patterns continue to influence choices and relationships.
In sessions she uses practical strategies from cognitive behavioral approaches alongside acceptance-focused work and mindfulness. She also draws on client-centered techniques and skills from dialectical behavior approaches to help with emotion regulation and communication. Sessions aim to make skills usable in everyday life rather than abstract theory.
Sherry pays attention to caregiver stress, attachment concerns, and issues such as abandonment, codependency, dissociation, and chronic illness impacts. She addresses mood and panic symptoms with concrete tools and step-by-step planning. People can expect direct discussion of patterns and practice of new responses.
Her stated process begins with a short assessment, goal-setting, and then regular check-ins to adjust what is working. She asks clients to be active in trying out new ways of relating and coping between sessions. To start, users follow the site’s matching steps to schedule an initial appointment.
How her approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking committed steps toward them while learning to make space for difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help when family patterns lead to avoidance or stuck behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, panic, and mood symptoms. Mindfulness Therapy builds simple attention and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation, which supports work on attachment and caregiving stress.Finding the right approach is part of the early work. Sherry discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods as needed. She and the client decide together whether to emphasize acceptance-based work, skills training, or mindfulness practice depending on the presenting concern.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit appointments into busy schedules, shorten travel time, and allow for quieter surroundings or brief check-ins during a workday. Licensed professionals often adapt exercises, homework, and skills practice to an online setting so tools are usable in daily life.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
4+ years
Listed in
North Carolina
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, and depression. Additional focuses include family of origin issues, attachment, abandonment, and caregiver stress.
What is her general approach in sessions?
She uses a mix of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, client-centered methods, dialectical behavior skills, and mindfulness. Sessions emphasize practical strategies you can use between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
Sherry Holder has four years of professional experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. That experience has included work with mood, panic, and relationship concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds an NC LCSW license and practices in North Carolina. Sessions are conducted in English.
Does she work with people outside the United States?
International clients are not currently accepted. Sessions are offered in English to people located where North Carolina licensure applies.
What session formats are offered?
Please confirm current session format options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats. The site’s matching process will show what is available for scheduling.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and services. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session through the site.
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