Sherry Lyerly-Tarner, LCMHC

Sherry Lyerly-Tarner is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and life changes. She aims to create a calm, accepting space where clients can talk through what’s happening and start to feel more steady. Sherry’s work often focuses on everyday thoughts and habits that shape how people respond to challenges.

She uses an integrative approach that blends traditional and holistic techniques to fit each person's needs. Her background includes work with eating disorder recovery programs, where she led yoga classes and explored mind-body connections. That experience informs how she addresses body image and disordered eating concerns.

Sherry has 13 years of clinical experience and holds the LCMHC credential. She has worked with people navigating high-conflict divorce, blended family issues, and separation. She also supports those recovering from abusive relationships and narcissistic abuse.

Her practice includes helping people with addiction-related concerns and co-occurring issues, caregiver stress, attachment and abandonment concerns, and aging and geriatric issues. She incorporates mindfulness, somatic ideas, and practical grounding tools to help people manage symptoms and build new patterns.

In addition to individual and couples counseling, she runs workshops, groups, and classes on stress reduction, mindfulness, and yoga for adults and teens in North Carolina. Sherry focuses on helping clients find daily tools that fit into ordinary life.

How therapeutic approaches and online work come together

Sherry draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside mindfulness and somatic practices. Evidence-based approaches focus on changing unhelpful thought patterns and everyday habits that feed anxiety and low mood, helping people learn new ways to respond to stress. Mindfulness practices teach simple attention and breathing tools to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Somatic-inspired methods use body-based grounding exercises to help people feel more present and less overwhelmed.

Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, test approaches, and adjust techniques so sessions match what feels most helpful. Clients take an active role in deciding which tools fit their day-to-day lives and routines.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people practice skills between sessions in their normal environments, which helps translate new habits into everyday life.