Shermoin Clardy , LICSW

Shermoin Clardy is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 15 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, trauma, and work-related stress. She practices in Washington and focuses on practical ways to ease day-to-day strain. Shermoin centers care on each person's lived experience and what they want to change.

She pays particular attention to issues that often affect women, including postpartum concerns and life transitions. She also helps people who struggle with attachment, communication problems, guilt, shame, and self-esteem. Sessions include time to talk through feelings and to build straightforward coping strategies.

Shermoin uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide recovery and growth. She aims to make skills usable outside the therapy room so clients can handle stress and hard emotions more confidently. The work is collaborative and paced to fit each person.

She brings a culturally responsive stance to therapy and aims to honor different backgrounds and beliefs. Shermoin listens for the values that matter to each person and folds those into treatment goals. She frames therapy as a place to explore meaning and purpose when life feels unclear.

Practical matters such as communication skills, forgiveness work, and workplace coping strategies are part of sessions when relevant. Clients can expect clear steps, gentle challenge, and attention to safety as they process difficult memories and make changes.

Evidence-based approaches and online care

Shermoin works from evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach emphasizes skills for managing anxiety and mood, teaching breathing, grounding, and thought-pattern strategies that help reduce overwhelming feelings and improve daily functioning. Another approach concentrates on healing from trauma and abuse by helping people process difficult memories at a sustainable pace and build safety and coping tools for triggers.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Shermoin collaborates with each person to match techniques to their goals, values, and current needs. She adjusts methods as progress is made so therapy stays useful and relevant rather than rigid.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep continuity when travel or life changes interrupt routine.