About Sherile
Sherile Smith is a licensed mental health counselor who has spent 25 years helping people find clearer direction and greater balance in their lives. She practices in Louisiana and brings a steady, straightforward style to sessions. Sherile aims to create a space where clients feel heard and can set goals that matter to them.
She focuses on common, often urgent problems like stress, anxiety, depression, anger, addictions, and relationship struggles.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing career changes, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and the impact of trauma or abuse. Sherile works with concerns around self-esteem, bipolar mood challenges, and life transitions as well. Her approach starts with listening and building a plan together.
She uses client-centered work to follow each person’s priorities. She also draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to address unhelpful thinking and emotionally-focused ideas to help with relationship patterns. Sherile has experience that spans many areas, including blended family issues, communication problems, body image, chronic illness or pain, codependency, and divorce or separation.
She treats effects of abandonment, family of origin issues, and domestic violence as part of broader recovery and coping work. Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled online or by phone. For international clients she is available for remote sessions.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step connect a person with her and the process she follows.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person's priorities. The therapist uses this approach to understand what matters most and to shape sessions around the client's goals, which can help with stress, self-esteem, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and build coping strategies for anxiety, depression, and mood concerns.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on how emotions affect relationships and communication. It can help people notice patterns, reconnect with important feelings, and improve how they relate to others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which techniques and priorities fit best. That means trying strategies, checking how they work, and adjusting the plan based on the person's needs and goals.
Online formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and exercises. Phone sessions can be simpler when visual bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are good for brief check-ins, homework support, or quick coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and changing life demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Iowa
- Languages
- English