Jennifer (Jen) Sherman

Jennifer (Jen) Sherman is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, grief, parenting strain, and questions around identity and LGBT concerns. She offers a warm, direct approach and aims to build trust quickly so clients can begin working on real problems. Jen brings 12 years of clinical experience to sessions and keeps the tone honest, down-to-earth, and sometimes light when it helps.

Clients can expect an interactive, inviting therapy style that focuses on the individual’s needs. Jen uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to reduce anxious thoughts and build coping skills. She also draws on dialectical behavior skills for emotion regulation and acceptance and commitment ideas for clarifying values and choosing meaningful action.

In session, the work centers on practical skills: reducing anxiety, improving communication, managing mood shifts, and building self-esteem. Jen helps people develop routines and small experiments they can try between meetings. She supports people through life transitions, grief, and the aftermath of trauma with steady, goal-oriented steps.

Her background includes time in private practice, university counseling, and work in grade schools, which informs her ability to tailor interventions to different ages and life stages. She is LGBT-affirmative and experienced with transgender transitioning concerns.

Outside of clinical work Jen reads widely and homeschoreographs kitchen dance parties with her two children. The combination of lived life and practice experience informs a therapy style that is practical, empathetic, and human.

How these approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. It is useful for life transitions, anxiety, and situations where motivation feels stuck.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It focuses on understanding attachment needs and changing familiar but unhelpful relationship habits, which can help with abandonment, family of origin issues, and relationship problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to use and adjust the plan over time so sessions feel useful and realistic.

Confirm the available session options before booking, since specific formats are not listed in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, it can reduce commuting time, let someone take a shorter check-in between obligations, or let a person join from a quieter location when that is possible. Licensed professionals can use these same therapeutic tools online to teach skills, set homework experiments between meetings, and track progress week to week.