About Sherlyn
Sherlyn Conlan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma with 25 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and challenges connected to parenting and family life. Sherlyn also supports people coping with ADHD, trauma, compassion fatigue, and shifts in mood or behavior.
She uses clear, practical methods in sessions so people can make steady progress. Sherlyn draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice what matters and change unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centered and solution-focused techniques to tailor work to each person’s goals. Sherlyn has long experience working with trauma and its effects on daily life and relationships. She helps people understand how past events shape current reactions, and she guides them toward manageable steps for recovery.
Her approach is calm and straightforward, with a focus on skills people can use between sessions. Sessions are aimed at real-life problems like panic, obsessive thoughts, postpartum depression, caregiver stress, and difficulties that come with adoption or attachment concerns. Sherlyn pays attention to practical solutions for mood disorders, isolation, and self-esteem struggles.
People who choose Sherlyn can expect a collaborative process. She listens, offers clear tools, and helps set small goals that fit each person’s routine and responsibilities.
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward them while learning to sit with difficult thoughts. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and struggles with motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and behavioral changes, which can help with panic, OCD-like patterns, and mood shifts. Trauma-Focused Therapy addresses the ways traumatic events affect daily life and relationships, using paced techniques to reduce overwhelming reactions and build coping skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sherlyn will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She listens first, suggests options, and adjusts strategies over time so therapy stays useful and manageable.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people work face to face from wherever they are, phone is helpful when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging allow short check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and make it easier to keep momentum.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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