Sherrida Smith, LCSW

Sherrida Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than 25 years of experience supporting children, teens, adults, and families through a wide range of life challenges. She has extensive experience facilitating therapeutic groups and working with clients facing social concerns, relationship difficulties, parenting and marital issues, and the effects of abuse or neglect. Her work includes helping people from diverse backgrounds and cultures, and she values learning about each person to tailor support that aligns with their goals.

Her therapeutic approach is authentic, warm, and strength based, focusing on the capacities clients already hold and building on those strengths to promote change and resilience. Sherrida integrates cognitive behavioral therapy and brief treatment techniques, and she draws on elements of psychoanalytic theory when it benefits a client. She describes her practice as work of the heart and takes a creative, open stance to select methods that best fit each individual.

Sherrida works with issues such as stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, self-esteem, coping with life changes, body image, caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, communication problems, forgiveness, life purpose, pregnancy and childbirth, self-love, women's issues, and workplace challenges. She looks forward to supporting and encouraging clients as they move into their next best phase of life.