Intervention Specialties:
- Certified Theraplay® Practitioner
- EMDR Therapist
- Circle of Security® Parenting Professional Trainer™
- TBRI® Trained
- CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
- Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) trained
- Sand tray
Treatment specialization includes:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Stress Management
- Panic Attacks and Phobias
- Trauma
- Impacts of Race and Oppression
- Women’s Issues
- Relationship Problems
- Parenting and Family Issues
- Medical and Health concerns
- Grief and Loss
- Work and Career issues
- Conflict Resolution
- Counseling for Therapists & Helping Professionals
- AAI Clinical Evaluations for Adults and Couples
Adoption-Specialization Areas:
- Search and Reunion (Domestic & International)
- Attachment
- Adoption Grief and Loss
- Neurodevelopmental Trauma
- Transracial Adoption Issues
- Return to Birth Country (International Adoption)
- Latent Adoption Learning (Learning you were adopted at an older age)
- Kinship Adoption Dynamics
- Open Adoption Considerations
- Pre-Adoption Counseling for Prospective Parent(s)
- GSA (Genetic Sexual Attraction)
Professional Trainings & Speaking
Topics include, but are not limited:
- Adoption-fluent dynamics
- Neurodevelopmental trauma
- Attachment
- Power of Play in Healing
- Cultural Sensitivity in the Workplace
- Transracial Adoption
- Complex Grief and Loss
- Self-Care and Self-Compassion
- DFPS Mandatory Reporting
- Ethics in child welfare
- Rehoming
- Suicide and Self-Harm
Clinical Supervision for select LMSW’s seeking LCSW or IPR status:
For those seeking LCSW or IPR (Independent Recognition Status) in the State of Texas, Ms. Chung-Sherman offers individual and group clinical supervision in accordance to the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners following the applicant’s written approval from the TSBSWE. She offers child and family clinical supervision for those who have had at least three years of social work practice and holds an active LMSW, LMSW-AP, or LMSW-IPR in good standing**. She will not provide clinical supervision to LBSW’s or non-licensed MSW’s. References are required. Additional information upon request.
**Adoption home studies and case management are not considered clinical settings for LMSW’s seeking an LCSW. This does not pertain to LMSW’s seeking the IPR status.