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

A little about me. . . 

"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

There was a long, difficult stretch in my life when I needed someone to walk alongside me, and the experience of being companioned through it changed me. 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 years I've worked in the field of mental health, in outpatient clinics, residential treatment centers, and private practice, with over fifteen of those years in private practice of my own. During those years I've walked alongside many people through grief, trauma, and the tender, disorienting seasons that come to all of us. It is still a privilege. . . every time.

My work centers on trauma, and I work primarily with adults. Alongside therapy, I'm a trained spiritual director, a teacher, an artist, and a writer.  These are the threads that tend to weave their way into how I companion alongside others.

"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