About Sally
Sally Herschman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Illinois who supports people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, and relationship and family challenges.
Background and approach
She also addresses concerns such as self-esteem, career questions, compassion fatigue, parenting and grief, along with more specific issues like attachment, adoption and foster care, codependency, and forgiveness. With 12 years of clinical experience, she brings practical strategies alongside therapeutic work to help clients manage life changes and pursue clearer goals.
Her style is warm, interactive, and strengths focused. Sally blends client-centered attention with cognitive and mindfulness-based techniques, and she draws on narrative and motivational methods when they suit a person’s needs.
She describes her approach as compassionate, nonjudgmental, and sex positive, inviting collaboration so clients feel heard and guided rather than directed. Sessions can include skill-building for organization and daily routines as well as deeper exploration of family of origin issues, trauma responses, and emotional patterns.
Sally welcomes people who are ready to take steps toward change and aims to co-navigate the work so clients feel supported throughout the process.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support
Client-Centered Therapy places the client’s perspective at the forefront, inviting exploration at a pace that feels right and focusing on personal strengths and values to foster growth and resilience. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering concrete skills for managing anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and acceptance practices that can reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist partners with each person to determine which methods fit their goals and preferences. Sessions often combine elements from different approaches so techniques are tailored collaboratively and adjusted as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to access care around work, family, and other commitments. These formats support ongoing skill practice, check-ins between sessions, and stepping into therapy without extensive travel, helping people maintain continuity of care and integrate learning into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English