About

Healing doesn't mean becoming someone different. It means rediscovering who you've always been beneath the pain, fear, or uncertainty. My hope is to provide a safe and accepting space where you feel deeply heard, valued, and believed in. Together, we'll explore your story with wisdom, compassion, and curiosity, helping you build resilience, strengthen your relationships, and create lasting change from the inside out.

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Meet Sherri Grady, LPC, LPCS

Healing doesn't mean becoming someone different. It means rediscovering who you've always been beneath the pain, fear, or uncertainty.

My hope is to provide a safe, accepting space where you feel deeply heard, valued, and believed in. Together, we'll gently explore your story with wisdom, compassion, and curiosity, helping you build resilience, strengthen your relationships, and experience lasting healing from the inside out.

A Calling to the Care of the Soul

I came to the care of the soul through my own season of it.

There was a long, difficult stretch in my life when I needed someone to walk alongside me. The experience of being companioned through that season changed me. It taught me that healing doesn't happen in isolation, and it awakened a calling that has shaped my life ever since.

I came to understand this work not as a profession I chose, but as a calling that found me. It remains, to this day, more a calling than a vocation.

For more than thirty years, I've served in the field of mental health, working in outpatient clinics, residential treatment centers, community mental health, and private practice, with more than fifteen years in my own practice. Throughout those years, I've had the privilege of walking alongside individuals and families through grief, trauma, loss, anxiety, and the tender, disorienting seasons that come to all of us.

My work is grounded in trauma-informed care and focused primarily on supporting adults as they move toward healing. Alongside my work as a therapist, I am also a trained Spiritual Director, teacher, artist, and writer. Those parts of who I am naturally weave together, shaping an approach that honors the whole person—mind, body, and soul.

I believe healing happens through compassionate presence, authentic relationship, and honoring the unique pace of each person's journey. It is a privilege to hold that space for others, and one I never take for granted.

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Education, Licensure & Certifications

    • Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) #3195 -S.C. Board of Examiners

    • LPC Supervisor  (LPCS) #4093 -  S.C. Board of Examiners

    • National Certified Counselor (NCC) - National Board for Certified Counselors 

    • Certified EMDR Therapist - Certified through EMDRIA since 2016

    • Certified Safe and Sound Protocol Practitioner (SSP) 

    • Certified Rest and Restore Protocol Practitioner (RRP)

    • Certified Integrated Listening System Practitioner (ILS)

    • Certified Heartmath Biofeedback Practitioner

    • Somatic Experiencing Practitioner  (SEP)  Currently accepting appointments for Somatic Experiencing Therapy

    • Trained in Clinical Hypnosis  (ASCH) - 2023

    • Trained Spiritual Director - 2019 - 2021 - Selah Certificate Program through Leadership Transformations Inc.  ​​

    • Certificate in Spiritual Transformation - Transforming Center 2014

    • (1998) The Pediatric Emotional Distress Scale: A new brief screening measure.  Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 28, pp. 70-81.

    •  (1997)  Children and families coping with disaster.  In S.A. Wolchik, and I.N. Sandler (Eds.)  Handbook of Children Coping with Common Stressors:  Linking Theory, Research, and Interventions.

    • Swenson, C., Saylor, C., Powell, P. Stokes, S., Foster, K., & Belter, R.  (1996) Impact of a natural disaster on preschool children: Adjustment 14 months after a hurricane.  American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 66(1).  Pp122-131

    • Stokes, S., Saylor, C., Swenson, C., & Daugherty, T.  (1995)  A comparison of children’s reaction following three types of stressors.  Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 26(2), PP. 113-123.

    • McDowell, A., Saylor, C., Taylor, M., Boyce, G., & Stokes, S. (1995)  Ethnicity and parenting stress change during early intervention.  Early Child Development and Care, 111, pp131-140.

    • Somatic Experiencing Institute Member (SE) - Member​

    • EMDRIA - Member

    • International Society for Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) - Member

    • International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) – Member​

    • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) - Past Member​

    • South Carolina Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (SPCSAC) – Past Board of Directors, Officer, Past Member

    • American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) – Past Member

    • Member of National Residential Standards Task Force for Juvenile Sex Offenders – Revision Project 

    • SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) – United States of America Department of Health & Human Services – Field Reviewer for Federal Grant Submissions in area of Trauma

    • Association for Treatment of Sexual Abusers Organizational Ethics Committee Member

    • South Carolina Association for Treatment of Sexual Abusers Member and Officer

    • South Carolina Professional Society on the Abuse of Children 2006 Colloquium Committee Member