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Sherri Grady is a licensed professional counselor/supervisor, trained spiritual director, teacher, artist and author in private practice in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. She graduated with a B.A. in English from the College of Charleston and from The Citadel Graduate School with a Masters in Education in Clinical Counseling and a Masters in Education in Guidance Counseling both with high honors.
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Sherri has 30 years of experience working in a variety of mental health settings providing services in outpatient clinics, residential treatment centers, and private practice.  In addition to providing therapy to clients and families, Sherri has held supervisory and director positions in both community mental health centers as well as residential treatment centers.  

​Current Licenses, Certifications, & Intensive Training
  • 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
  • Certificate in Spiritual Transformation - Transforming Center 2014
  • Certified Heartmath Biofeedback Practitioner
  • Somatic Experiencing Practitioner  (SEP In Training - Completed Year One of Basic Training and Currently in middle of Intermediate Year -  November 2024)
  • Trained in Clinical Hypnosis  (ASCH) - 2023
  • Trained Spiritual Director - 2019 - 2021 - Selah Certificate Program through Leadership Transformations Inc.  
  •  Attachment Mastery Program and multiple Therapy Mastermind Programs with Dr. Diane Poole Heller and Trauma Solutions​

Professional Manuscripts 
  • (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.
 Professional Memberships
  • Somatic Experiencing Institute Member (SE) - Member
  • Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS)- Member
  • EMDRIA - Member
  • International Society for Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) - Member
  • International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) – Past Member
  • Evangelical Spiritual Directors Association (ESDA) - Past 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


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Past Professional Task Forces/Projects
  • 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
"In art, the hand can never
​execute anything higher than
the heart can imagine.” 
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                                           Ralph Waldo Emerson 
 I love this quote by Emerson.  

I think the concept is applicable in the process of growth and transformation as well.  
The mind can never execute anything higher than
the heart can imagine . . . 

The heart is at the center of walking with others on their journey. . . no matter where it goes.