Sherry Friedman , LPC, LCMHC

Sherry Friedman is a licensed mental health professional holding LPC and LCMHC credentials with twelve years of clinical experience, based in North Carolina. She is also an author of the memoir Midwife of the Soul: A Teaching Memoir Through the Lens of an HSP Psychotherapist, a book that blends personal vignettes with reflective processing to illuminate the experience of living as a highly sensitive person. Her writing includes practical resources that she often introduces in clinical work, and she is recognized as an HSP psychotherapist on Dr. Elaine Aron’s website.

Friedman’s approach is holistic and multi-dimensional, grounded in Jungian-inspired transformational and psychodynamic thought while integrating attachment-focused perspectives and client-centered principles. She explores biological, psychological, social, cultural, energetic, spiritual, and environmental influences that contribute to stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, relationship struggles, and vocational challenges. Her practice incorporates mindfulness tools such as HeartMath coherence and a listening model she calls Listening with HEART - Healing, Energy, Awareness, Resiliency, Transformation.

Known for a warm, interactive style, Friedman draws on her background in school psychology and gifted education as well as clinical counseling to support people coping with trauma and abuse, parenting and family issues, grief, mood and mood disorders, ADHD, career concerns, and challenges tied to attachment or abandonment. She emphasizes self-discovery, transformation, and the pursuit of life purpose as central aims of therapy. Friedman holds an MA in School Psychology from Ball State University, an MS Ed in Gifted Education from Purdue University, and an MS in Clinical Counseling from Bellevue University.

Attachment and Jungian-Informed Online Therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on the ways early relationships shape current patterns of connection and security. It helps people understand how attachment styles influence communication, intimacy, and responses to stress, and supports rebuilding safer relational patterns.

Jungian Therapy emphasizes symbolism, unconscious material, and personal transformation. It encourages exploration of dreams, life narratives, and inner images to foster deeper self-understanding and meaning, which can be helpful for clients seeking identity work, life purpose, or midlife shifts.

Client-centered elements are woven throughout this work, creating a respectful, empathetic atmosphere where the therapist follows the client’s pace and priorities. Choosing the right blend of approaches is a collaborative process - Friedman works together with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what best supports progress and comfort.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility by allowing sessions via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life transitions, and access licensed professionals from a distance while working on stress, relationship issues, trauma recovery, or personal growth.