About Sheri
Sheri Bettenhausen is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people cope with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and ADHD. She offers steady, practical support and focuses on helping clients take small steps toward change. Sheri writes plainly and listens carefully to what matters most to each person.
She creates an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. Sessions are collaborative and geared toward problems the person wants to solve.
Background and approach
Sheri emphasizes clear, doable strategies so people can try things between visits and notice real differences. Her work draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma-focused methods to address difficult memories and current symptoms. She also uses solution-focused techniques to set short-term goals and DBT skills to manage strong emotions and improve coping.
Sheri brings 18 years of professional experience in Kentucky to her practice. That background includes helping people with parenting stress, relationship and family of origin issues, sexual assault and abuse, addictions, mood disorders, and sleep problems. She also supports people navigating gender and sexuality issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and neurodiversity-related challenges.
People who choose Sheri can expect straightforward guidance, a focus on practical skills, and ongoing support while they work toward their goals. She encourages steady progress over time and partners with clients to adapt plans as needs change.
Approaches and online care that meet you where you are
Sheri uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people recognize unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors. CBT is useful for problems like anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and managing day-to-day ADHD challenges.She also draws on trauma-focused therapy to address painful memories and symptoms that follow abuse or other traumatic events. This approach focuses on reducing the hold of traumatic memories and building coping skills for triggers and flashbacks.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sheri will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean combining CBT, trauma-focused tools, DBT skills, or solution-focused goal-setting as the situation requires.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video works well for in-depth conversations and exercises, phone can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth, live chat can be useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into work, parenting schedules, or other commitments while maintaining steady contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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