Sherry Lyerly-Tarner

Sherry Lyerly-Tarner is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) who helps people facing anxiety, stress, relationship strain, trauma, and self-esteem struggles. She focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life easier. Her work includes support for those coping with life changes and concerns around body image and disordered eating.

She uses a mix of traditional and holistic techniques to match each person’s needs. That can mean combining talk therapy with mindfulness, yoga-informed practices, or experiential exercises. The goal is to address both thinking patterns and bodily responses so clients feel more grounded and able to act differently.

Sherry brings 13 years of clinical experience in North Carolina, including work in recovery settings and programs for eating disorders. Her background includes work with people navigating separation, high-conflict divorce, blended family challenges, and abusive relationships. She also has experience supporting caregivers, people with substance concerns, and those facing aging or medical stressors.

In sessions she often uses grounding, breath work, and movement-based tools alongside counseling to strengthen coping skills. Workshops and groups on stress reduction and mindfulness are part of her practice, too. These practical tools are introduced in ways clients can use between sessions.

Sherry works in English and does not accept international clients. Her approach is collaborative: she helps people make a plan, practice new skills, and adjust the plan as needed.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Sherry commonly blends evidence-based therapy with mindfulness and somatic-informed practices. Evidence-based talk therapies focus on identifying thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and then practicing new ways of responding; these approaches help with anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties. Mindfulness-based practices teach simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and strengthen focus, which can be useful for stress, body image concerns, and recovery from trauma.

She treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. The therapist and client work together to choose methods that match the client’s goals, needs, and comfort level. Plans may be adjusted over time based on what’s most helpful in real life.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, as the biography does not specify which online options are offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow quick check-ins that don’t require travel, and let people use practices such as grounding or breath work in the moment. Therapists can assign short between-session exercises and adapt tools so clients can practice skills in their everyday routines.