About Sheryl
Sheryl Mahon is a licensed professional counselor with 18 years of experience helping people navigate grief, trauma, chronic illness, and major life changes. She practices in Arizona as an LPC and as an LPCC in California and focuses on clear, practical work aimed at moving people forward. Her style is direct but compassionate and she emphasizes teamwork in sessions.
Sheryl spends time learning what matters most to each person. She helps clients name the changes they want and then tries different tools to reach those goals.
Background and approach
That can include coping strategies for stress, skills for managing mood shifts, or ways to sleep and rest better. Sessions are focused and down-to-earth rather than abstract. Her background includes long experience with grief and end-of-life concerns, caregiver stress, and trauma.
She also works with people facing chronic pain, illness, and disability, and with issues like abandonment, attachment concerns, and complicated guilt or shame. People dealing with first responder stress, hospice matters, or cancer-related distress are within her published focus areas. Sheryl uses several therapy approaches and adapts them to each person.
She draws on attachment-based and client-centered ideas to build trust. Cognitive behavioral and dialectical tools are used when people need concrete skills to manage thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by phone, video, chat, or text messaging.
The approach is collaborative: Sheryl works with each person to choose strategies that fit their life and goals.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions. Online sessions can help people notice those patterns and practice new ways of relating in everyday life.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and values their perspective. In remote sessions this means the therapist listens closely, follows the person's lead, and helps them find their own next steps.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT tools are often used in short exercises during video or phone sessions and in follow-up between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, life demands, and preferences, then suggest which methods to try first. That decision is made collaboratively and can change over time as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick ways to process feelings, practice new skills, or stay connected between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Arizona, California
- Languages
- English