Karen Sheerin, LCSW-R

Karen Sheerin is a licensed clinical social worker with forty years of experience. She offers steady, practical support for people coping with stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and low self-esteem. Clients meet someone who listens closely and helps them find workable steps forward.

Her approach focuses on clear, problem-solving methods. She uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and set small, achievable goals. Sessions often concentrate on immediate concerns and on skills that can be used between meetings.

Karen also helps people facing major life changes. She works with concerns such as divorce and separation, workplace strain, and questions about life purpose. She pays attention to issues that affect women specifically and to the practical impacts of aging, chronic illness, and pain.

She places emphasis on healing from guilt and shame and on growing self-love. Communication problems, control issues, isolation or loneliness, and coping with transitions are common topics in her work. The aim is straightforward: build confidence and usable coping strategies.

Based in New York, Karen draws on long clinical experience to guide each person toward clearer choices. Sessions are paced to each person’s needs, with an emphasis on practical changes that fit day-to-day life.

How CBT and Solution-Focused Work Online

Karen uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify and change patterns of thinking that increase anxiety or get in the way of recovery from addiction. CBT focuses on specific thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills that people can practice between sessions.

She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy, which concentrates on small, achievable goals and on what already works in a person’s life. This approach is useful for people who want quicker, action-oriented steps to improve mood, cope with grief, or manage workplace stress.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Karen will work with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences, and she may combine elements from both approaches as appropriate.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the current session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and let people attend from a location that suits their schedule. Licensed professionals can often adjust pacing and homework to match day-to-day life, making therapeutic tools easier to use between meetings.