About Gretchen
Gretchen Sherrill is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage anxiety, depression, grief, and big life changes. She practices in Virginia and brings 12 years of experience to her sessions. Gretchen focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more able to cope.
Her work centers on understanding how stress and relationships affect daily life. She talks through communication problems, commitment worries, and issues around abandonment or attachment.
Background and approach
Gretchen also supports people facing medical concerns, caregiving strain, and changes tied to aging or adoption and foster care histories. Sessions aim to build clearer thinking and stronger coping skills. She helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck and try new ways of responding.
The tone of her work is collaborative and goal-focused, with attention to small, achievable changes. Gretchen draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide her practice. She helps people with body image concerns, codependency, control issues, and recovery from stressful events.
Her approach balances practical strategies with compassion. People who work with Gretchen can expect straightforward conversations about next steps. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
All sessions are conducted in English and organized around each person’s priorities and schedule.
Evidence-based approaches delivered online
Gretchen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and real-world changes. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and depression. This method helps people interrupt worry cycles and try different responses to stressful situations.Another common emphasis is on improving communication and attachment patterns. Work in this area helps people name how they respond under stress, practice clearer ways of asking for needs, and repair repeated misunderstandings. This approach can be useful for relationship strain, commitment worries, and issues tied to abandonment or attachment history.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Gretchen will work with each person to pick techniques that match their goals, needs, and daily life. She expects to adjust methods over time based on what helps most, and she involves clients in deciding next steps.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow for a face-to-face feel when depth is needed, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging suit quick check-ins and short coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to continue steady work on stress, grief, and relationship concerns from different places and schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, Florida
- Languages
- English