Holistic support for deeper intimacy, stronger connections, and lasting emotional wellbeing.

Dr. Kelly Scherger is a highly respected licensed psychologist and an AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists) Certified Sex Therapist, located in North Carolina. 

Dr. Scherger helps couples and individuals deepen intimacy, improve emotional wellbeing, enhance effective communication, and create meaningful change. Her practice is grounded in warmth, clinical expertise, and an authentic commitment to client-centered and individualized care. Dr. Scherger integrates evidence-based therapy and specialized approaches to treat a range of mental and sexual health concerns. She is known for highly professional, holistic, and expert care and for creating a safe, affirming, and validating space for all clients. 

Dr. Scherger is PsyPact certified, allowing her to provide secure virtual therapy to clients in multiple states.

Dr. Scherger’s Clients

Dr. Scherger’s clients are often high-achieving, busy professionals. While they are often successful in many areas of their life, many experience issues related to sexual health and wellness, stress, sleep disturbance, anxiety, depression, and chronic health issues. Dr. Scherger treats adult (18+) individuals and couples.

Expertise

Couples often experience feeling disconnected from each other, lacking a previously felt passion, and/or a decreased sex drive. Due to ongoing life stressors, many couples find themselves in a sexual rut. Dr. Scherger specializes in helping couples and individuals navigate issues such as:

  • Low sexual desire
  • Mismatched sexual desire
  • Issues with orgasm
  • Ineffective communication
  • Sexual pain
  • Pelvic floor dysfunction
  • Erectile dysfunction
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Chronic health issues affecting intimacy

In addition to sex therapy, Dr. Scherger also provides evidence-based therapeutic interventions to address:

  • Sleep issues
  • Body image disturbance
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Behavioral weight loss
  • Chronic pain management
  • Adjustment difficulties 

Dr. Scherger also provides psychological assessments for spinal cord stimulator placement, pre-surgical evaluations (bariatric, transplant), and psychodiagnostic evaluations. 

Therapeutic Approach
Compassionate, Evidence-Based Therapy

Dr. Scherger’s therapeutic style is warm, collaborative, and grounded in deep respect for each individual’s lived experience. She offers a safe and supportive space where clients feel heard, valued, and empowered. Her approach is person-centered and strengths-based, emphasizing resilience, personal growth, healing, and self-compassion.

Rooted in evidence-based practices, Dr. Scherger integrates the latest research with a holistic understanding of mind and body, tailoring care to the distinctive needs of each client. She is trauma-informed, attentive to how past experiences may shape present challenges, and committed to creating a space of authentic safety and trust. Her work is also guided by the highest standards of professionalism and ethics, ensuring thoughtful, respectful, and effective care.

Dr. Scherger uses an integrative approach tailored to each client’s specific goals, values, and needs. Her methods include:

  • CBT utilizes evidence-based tools to identify and reframe unhelpful thoughts, reduce anxiety, and change behavior patterns. Dr. Scherger has expertise in CBT for Insomnia, which is the gold standard treatment for insomnia. She also provides CBT for Chronic Pain, CBT for Depression, and Behaviral Activation for depression. 

  • Techniques to increase present-moment awareness, enhance intentional focus, reduce stress, and improve emotion regulation.

  • A cornerstone of sex therapy, Sensate Focus is a highly effective treatment that helps couples and individuals reconnect with physical intimacy in a non-judgmental, mindful, sensory, step-by-step process.

  • A method of focused relaxation to address issues such as anxiety, sleep disturbances, tension, chronic health issues, pain, or sexual concerns through guided hypnosis.

  • A values-based approach that helps clients mindfully accept difficult emotions, commit to meaningful actions, and build psychological flexibility and wellness

  • A specific evidence-based therapy effective in treating symptoms related to trauma and PTSD and trauma-related beliefs by identifying and challenging distorted thinking patterns.

  • A structured, evidence-based technique to help clients gradually confront and reduce fear, anxiety, or avoidance related to phobias, trauma, or distressing memories.