About Sherry
Dr. Sherry Aaker is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Georgia with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma.
She works in a direct and compassionate way that aims to make sessions feel clear and manageable for busy lives. Her work often centers on difficulties with self-esteem, intimacy-related concerns, sleep problems, anger, and coping with big life changes.
Background and approach
She also addresses issues such as abandonment, caregiver stress, blended family concerns, and pressures related to aging. Dr. Aaker integrates practical tools and steady support so clients can take small steps forward.
She draws on a mix of approaches to match each person's needs, using techniques that help with thoughts, emotions, behavior, and relationships. Sessions include active skill-building, problem solving, and attention to what matters most to the client. She describes therapy as a collaborative effort to set clear goals and test what helps.
Her background includes work with trauma, addiction-related struggles, and the emotional fallout from separation or loss. She brings attention to family of origin patterns, forgiveness work, and feelings of emptiness or shame. The aim is to reduce immediate distress while building longer-term coping skills.
People who prefer straightforward guidance and practical strategies may find her style a good match. Sessions are offered in English and designed to fit around daily routines and real life demands.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and situations where someone feels stuck.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and changing behaviors that keep problems active. It is often used for anxiety, sleep issues, depression, and anger by teaching practical skills to test new ways of thinking.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. That may mean blending ACT and CBT techniques or trying different tools until something fits.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video visits allow a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work with lower bandwidth, live chat suits short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity when travel or life changes interrupt routine.
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What this counselor works with
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- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English