About Sherri
Sherri Johnson is a licensed clinician based in Maryland with more than 26 years of experience. She brings both an MD and an LCSW-C to her practice and focuses on practical support for everyday struggles. Sherri meets people where they are and helps them find clearer ways forward.
She often helps people dealing with relationship problems, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She also works with concerns such as self-esteem, career stress, grief, and addictive behaviors.
Background and approach
Her approach is straightforward and empathic, and she adapts conversations to each person’s needs. Sherri uses a mix of methods so sessions can match a person's goals. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at patterns in close relationships.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are available when people want tools to manage strong emotions. Sessions focus on practical steps that fit into real life.
Sherri helps people build skills for coping with change, improving sleep and eating habits, managing anger, and facing workplace or caregiving stress. She also supports people working through issues tied to adoption, aging, autism traits, and other co-occurring concerns. Her style is respectful and down-to-earth.
New clients complete a short intake so she can tailor the plan and set clear goals together. The first step can feel hard, and she aims to make the process as manageable as possible.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Sherri uses attachment-based work to look at how early and current relationship patterns affect feelings and interactions; this helps when trust, closeness, or repeated relationship struggles are part of the problem. She also applies cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what techniques feel useful, then adapt sessions so the plan evolves from what the client needs. That teamwork helps make therapy more relevant and practical.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful when you want face-to-face conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy days while keeping focus on progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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