About Sheryl
Sheryl Burns is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She uses straightforward strategies to boost self-esteem and to help people cope with life changes. Sheryl draws on three years of counseling experience and a long career in education to understand everyday pressures.
Her background includes more than 20 years in schools, which gives her context for the stress teachers and school staff often face.
Background and approach
That experience also informs how she supports students and adults who are navigating academic or work-related strain. She listens without judgment and prioritizes a calm, respectful space for talking things through. Sessions emphasize clear goals and steps you can try between meetings.
Sheryl integrates client-centered conversations with tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to spot unhelpful thinking and to test small behavior changes. Mindfulness exercises and skills from dialectical behavior therapy may be used to manage strong emotions when needed. She also uses motivational interviewing techniques to build momentum when change feels hard.
The work is collaborative - the person sets priorities and Sheryl helps shape practical plans. Many people seek her help for communication problems, isolation, guilt or finding life purpose. Sheryl practices in Texas and provides counseling in English.
She aims to empower people to move toward clearer choices, more self-compassion, and steadier day-to-day coping.
How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s perspective. In online sessions this means the therapist asks open questions, reflects what they hear, and helps people decide what matters most for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and tests small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression. Online work can include practicing new skills between sessions and reviewing what worked. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, provides concrete emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills for strong emotions and relationship stress. These skills translate well to short exercises and homework used in virtual appointments.Choosing which approach to use is a joint process. The therapist will talk about your goals and try different ways of working until a good fit is found. Clients help set priorities and together they adjust methods based on what feels most helpful and realistic for daily life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send quick updates, ask questions between meetings, or connect when it feels easier to type. These options make it simpler to fit care around work, school, and family life while using the therapeutic approaches described above.
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- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English