About Sheri
Sheri Patterson is a licensed mental health counselor in Indiana who blends practical therapies with a focus on personal strengths. She centers the work on each person’s goals and helps them find ways to move forward. Sessions are straightforward and aimed at real-life change.
Sheri draws on client-centered methods to make sessions feel respectful and collaborative. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Background and approach
Motivational Interviewing is part of her approach when clients need help building momentum for life changes. Many people seek her support for stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. She also helps with relationship strain, compassion fatigue, communication problems, and midlife questions.
Sheri pays attention to guilt, shame, forgiveness, and issues that affect women’s well-being. In sessions she encourages clients to use their strengths, not just cope with problems. Conversations focus on practical steps, clearer thinking, and finding motivation that fits a person’s life.
Goals are set by the client and refined together during treatment. Sheri brings eleven years of experience from both inpatient psychiatric and outpatient counseling settings. That background informs how she balances practical skills with a respectful, person-led stance.
She aims to make the first steps into therapy less intimidating and more useful.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy is about listening and following the client’s lead. The therapist offers acceptance and support while the client sets goals and decides what to work on. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing them through practical exercises and behavioral experiments; it can help with anxiety, mood problems, and low self-esteem. Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about what feels most useful, try strategies, and adjust over time based on needs and preferences. That collaborative process helps match methods to the problem and the person. Online sessions can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people read facial expressions and have fuller conversations. Phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to get support between longer sessions or to use shorter, more frequent check-ins during busy weeks. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English