About Sherlyn
Sherlyn Conlan is a licensed professional counselor who uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She draws on 25 years of experience in Oklahoma to offer steady, straightforward support for common and complex concerns. Her style is calm and focused on real-life solutions that fit each person's situation.
She often combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and client-centered techniques. That means she helps people notice what matters to them, challenge unhelpful thoughts, and build small habits that make life easier.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and aimed at doable changes rather than long theory talks. Sherlyn has worked extensively with trauma and understands how past events can affect daily functioning and relationships. She uses trauma-focused practices to help people process painful memories and reduce their disruptive effects over time.
She also helps with grief, anger, and mood concerns in concrete ways. Parents and caregivers will find practical guidance on managing parenting stress, attachment questions, and adoption or foster care issues. Sherlyn addresses ADHD, obsessive or compulsive behaviors, postpartum depression, and seasonal mood changes with tools tailored to each person's needs.
Her approach is collaborative: she listens first, then helps set goals and steps to reach them. Sessions can include problem-solving, mindfulness skills, behavioral experiments, and short-term planning. The aim is clearer thinking, steadier mood, and better day-to-day coping.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take small actions that align with what matters to them. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes where motivation and direction feel unclear. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and offers practical tools to change unhelpful patterns; it is commonly used for anxiety, panic, OCD symptoms, and mood disorders.Sherlyn works collaboratively to choose the best approach based on each person's goals and preferences. She listens to what matters most, suggests a few strategies to try, and checks in regularly about what is helping. Finding the right fit is treated as an ongoing conversation rather than a one-time decision.
Online therapy offers options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and skill coaching, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can support quick check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These formats make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, or other daily demands without long commutes.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English