About Sharmian
Sharmian McCoy is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She aims to make the first step feel manageable and supports clients through hard moments with practical attention and steady presence. She brings 25 years of experience in clinical work in Tennessee.
That background includes supporting people dealing with trauma, intimacy-related concerns, grief, parenting strain, and career pressures. She also addresses issues such as codependency, caregiver stress, postpartum concerns, and veteran-related challenges.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses down-to-earth conversation and hands-on techniques to untangle problems. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns of thought and behavior that keep people stuck. Narrative Therapy helps people reframe harmful stories they tell about themselves and their relationships.
Trauma-focused work is used when past events continue to affect daily life, and Internal Family Systems offers a way to name and gently work with different parts of the self. Her style is collaborative - she listens, offers clear feedback, and sets small goals clients can try between meetings.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. People who are ready to explore change can begin by answering a short questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits their needs.
Approaches that fit online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with more helpful alternatives; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from the stories they tell about their lives so they can rewrite harmful patterns and build more empowering narratives. Trauma-Focused Therapy targets the effects of past traumatic events and uses focused strategies to reduce their day-to-day impact.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they will try methods that match the issue at hand and adjust the plan based on how the work is going.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a hands-free option is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people check in more frequently or fit brief sessions into a busy day. These options help therapy fit into work, school, caregiving, and other daily demands while keeping the focus on practical problem solving.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English