Sherry Friedman, LPC, LCMHC
North Carolina · 12 years in practice
Sherry Friedman is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) with twelve years of experience.
License and registration
- LCMHC, North Carolina
- 12786 · expires June 2027
- LPC, South Carolina
- 9015 · expires August 2027
- LMHC, Rhode Island
- MHC01614 · expires July 2026
- NPI
- 1730627068 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 12
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Sherry
Sherry Friedman is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) with twelve years of experience. She practices in North Carolina and brings a warm, interactive presence to sessions. Sherry writes about sensitivity and neurodivergence and often shares practical tools she uses with clients.
Sherry focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and trauma. She also supports work on parenting strain, relationship problems, grief, career questions, and issues like attention differences or body image.
Background and approach
Her approach is conversational and grounded in everyday coping skills. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She also uses client-centered methods that keep the person’s priorities at the center of sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when emotion regulation and coping tools are needed. Sherry describes her style as exploratory and compassionate. Sessions may include reflective conversation, mindfulness practices, and practical exercises to try between meetings.
She often helps clients identify boundaries, strengthen self-esteem, and clarify life purpose. Her background includes training in school psychology, gifted education, and clinical counseling. Sherry integrates many influences into a holistic plan that fits each person’s needs.
People who want a thoughtful, experience-based guide may find her approach fits their goals.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Sherry lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Approaches Sherry names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How attachment and skills work online
Attachment-based work looks at patterns that formed in early relationships and how they affect current feelings and connections; it helps when people want to understand relationship patterns and emotional reactions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following the client's goals so sessions feel focused on what matters to the person. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions, reducing overwhelm, and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be useful for mood swings, anger, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the process and the therapist will collaborate with each person to decide what fits best. That choice is based on the individual's needs, goals, and day-to-day life, and it can shift over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through several formats: video calls for full face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing coaching and reminders. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work or family schedules, allow shorter or longer check-ins when needed, and let people pick the format that helps them engage most comfortably.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Sherry address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, mood disorders, ADHD, and related issues like grief, anger, self-esteem, career strain, and relationship or family problems.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and interactive, combining reflective conversation with mindfulness and practical skills. Sessions emphasize the client's priorities and real-life coping strategies.
What is her professional background?
She has twelve years of clinical experience and has trained in areas including school psychology, gifted education, and clinical counseling, which she blends into her practice.
Where is she based and what credentials does she hold?
She practices in North Carolina and holds the credentials LPC and LCMHC with licensure noted for North Carolina and South Carolina as an LCMHC and LPC respectively.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions may be held via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on the chosen arrangement.
How is pricing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and services are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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