About Sherrie
Sherrie Mintz is a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting strain. She focuses on practical ways to manage day-to-day challenges and make small changes that add up. Her work also addresses relationship and family concerns and attention-related issues such as ADHD.
She aims to treat each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Sessions are shaped around what the client needs most, with a plan that adjusts as progress is made.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and focused on skills people can use outside of sessions. Sherrie uses a mix of collaborative listening and active problem-solving. She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and on emotion-focused methods to help people understand and regulate feelings.
Mindfulness and motivational techniques are added when they fit a client's goals. Her background includes four years of professional practice as a Virginia LCSW, working with people through life transitions, grief, and family conflict. She pays attention to the practical side of change so sessions feel useful from week to week.
People often come with worries about parenting, anger, self-esteem, or relationship communication. Sherrie works with each person to set clear, achievable goals and to build skills that support those goals over time.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects feelings, and helps people clarify what they want to change. This approach is useful when someone needs understanding and a steadier space to make decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses simple, practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and to build new habits. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management because it offers clear steps to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they choose or mix methods and adjust as needed so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people keep visual connection, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or brief coaching between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can match changing schedules and energy levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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