Sharmian McCoy, LPC

Sharmian McCoy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Tennessee who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. She speaks plainly and listens carefully to what matters most to each person. Her aim is to make the first step feel manageable and to offer steady support along the way.

With 25 years of experience, McCoy draws on practical approaches that help people change unhelpful thoughts and patterns. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside narrative and trauma-focused methods to address painful memories and recurring difficulties. Sessions are conversational and goal oriented, with simple tools to try between meetings.

McCoy pays attention to life context. She helps people cope with grief, parenting strain, career stress, and caregiving challenges. She also works with concerns like codependency, commitment fears, intimacy worries, and the fallout from divorce or separation.

People who have faced sexual assault, postpartum depression, or veteran-related trauma are included among the issues she treats. She also addresses longer-term patterns such as low self-esteem, isolation, and midlife transitions. Treatment plans are shaped around the client’s goals and daily life demands.

In sessions McCoy focuses on clear steps and practical skills. She invites clients to tell their story, notice patterns, and test new ways of thinking and behaving. That combination of real-world tactics and careful listening is central to her approach.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Sharmian McCoy commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy in online work. CBT helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors with small, practical experiments to reduce anxiety and lift mood. Trauma-Focused Therapy focuses on processing difficult memories safely and building coping skills to manage triggers and intrusive memories.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss goals, personal history, and daily demands to decide which method or combination feels right. That collaboration continues as progress is reviewed and strategies are adjusted to fit the client’s needs.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for a full-session conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging supports brief updates or between-session coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving responsibilities, or busy schedules.