About Sherile
Sherile Smith is a licensed mental health counselor and licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience helping people navigate difficult moments. She focuses on practical steps people can take to feel steadier and more like themselves. Sherile draws on a long career in Louisiana working with adults from many backgrounds.
She meets each person where they are and builds a plan together. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit individual needs.
Background and approach
Sherile listens for what matters most and helps people set clear, achievable goals. Her work addresses stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and communication issues, anger, and self-esteem concerns. She also helps people facing trauma and abuse, addiction struggles, parenting strain, career transitions, bipolar challenges, and compassion fatigue.
Sherile offers support for a wide range of related life problems such as abandonment, blended family issues, body image, chronic illness, codependency, and divorce. Sherile uses familiar, evidence-informed approaches in everyday language. She adapts methods to match each person's goals and comfort level rather than applying a one-size-fits-all plan.
People who want clear strategies plus space to talk often do well with her style. Sessions are available in English and Sherile accepts international clients. She works with clients by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their schedule and needs.
How Sherile’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. The therapist listens closely and follows the client’s lead to build trust and meaningful goals. This approach helps people who want a supportive space to talk and figure out next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going. It uses simple exercises and practical homework to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when someone wants clear tools to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sherile will discuss options and decide together which methods fit a person’s goals, needs, and comfort. That collaborative process can include trying one approach first and adjusting as progress is made.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for fuller conversations and nonverbal cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging lets people keep up steady contact between meetings. These formats give flexibility for different schedules and situations and help make therapy easier to fit into daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Iowa
- Languages
- English