Dr. Sherry Aaker

Dr. Sherry Aaker is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people cope with grief, trauma, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem struggles during hard life transitions. Her work is grounded in close listening and steady support so people feel understood as they sort through difficult emotions.

She often helps with issues like caregiving stress, aging and geriatric concerns, abandonment, and the emotional fallout from divorce or separation. She also supports people facing substance use concerns, domestic violence histories, and the long-term effects of family-of-origin problems. Practical, everyday problems such as sleeping trouble, anger, intimacy-related issues, and trouble coping with major change are part of her practice.

Dr. Aaker uses several therapeutic approaches to tailor work to each person. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based ideas, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Solution-Focused methods to build coping skills and clarify values. Sessions mix reflection, skill practice, and short-term goal planning.

She brings a faith-informed perspective for those who want it and aims to balance emotional support with practical steps. The goal is to help clients build resilience, reconnect with purpose, and make manageable changes over time.

If you are dealing with grief or end-of-life concerns, she includes that work alongside other focuses, helping people process loss, plan emotionally, and find meaning while facing hard decisions.

Approaches that guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and identify what matters most so they can take values-driven steps. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and meaning-focused grief work.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to change patterns that maintain distress. It can help with sleeping problems, mood, and managing worry.

Attachment-Based ideas look at how early relationships shape current ways of relating and coping, which can help with intimacy issues, abandonment wounds, and caregiver stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean trying different techniques early on and adjusting what is used as progress becomes clear.

Confirm the specific session formats before booking, as the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a weekday break or when travel is difficult, allow for shorter check-ins when time is tight, and reduce the need for commuting to appointments. Licensed professionals can adapt the approaches above to work effectively through remote conversations when those formats are available.