About Sherri
Sherri Brothers is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience helping people handle stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and questions about sexuality. She welcomes people of all races, religions, sexual orientations, and gender identities and focuses on finding strengths that move them forward.
She has long experience with clients connected to the child welfare system and with those who have survived trauma. That background informs how she talks about family of origin issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and the effects of past experiences on current relationships.
Background and approach
She also works with individuals facing career stress, sleep problems, anger, and compassion fatigue. In sessions she starts by getting to know a person's situation and goals. She helps people name their motivation for counseling and sets clear targets for what to work on together.
Conversations are practical and geared toward what someone can change now. Her training includes a Bachelor’s degree from Virginia Tech and a Master’s degree from the University of Connecticut, where she focused on marriage and family therapy. That foundation shapes how she looks at communication problems, divorce and separation, and family dynamics.
People can expect a collaborative style that blends structured techniques with attention to present experience. The aim is to build self-esteem, reduce symptoms of depression or mood disorders, and improve intimacy and relationship skills. Sessions are offered from Virginia and conducted in English.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice thoughts and bodily sensations without getting swept away by them. This approach can reduce stress and improve sleep by teaching simple attention practices to use day to day.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses short exercises and practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and build new behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood symptoms.
Motivational Interviewing focuses on a person’s reasons to change and boosts their own motivation. It is short-term and practical, often used when someone needs a push to start new habits or make decisions about relationships or career moves.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and help decide what fits best based on goals, preferences, and current challenges. This is a cooperative process that can shift as needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video and phone allow deeper conversation when needed, while chat and messaging can work for quick check-ins, brief skill practice, or when bandwidth is limited. These options give flexibility for different rhythms and schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English