Biography - Sherry Murray

 Sherry Murray

Licensed Mental Health Counselor, #LH00007540 - since 2002

09/97 – 06/99

Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology Gonzaga University

09/90 – 06/93

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science/Technical Writing 

Eastern Washington University

09/88 – 08/90

Associate of Arts and Sciences 

& 

Associates of Applied Science 

in Computer Science

Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA.  

All degrees 3.9 gpa

1993

Eastern Washington University’s Department of Computer Science’s
Stanley F. Robinson Award for Academic Achievement

1990

Washington Award for Vocational Excellence

To best ensure your confidentiality. I do not use AI in charting client records. As you may know, AI is inherently not confidential as it uses everything it generates to learn, and thus keeps a copy of it in its memory. Efforts are being made to make AI HIPAA compliant, but in the interim, since those are your private counseling notes, I prefer not to give access to AI.

For more info on AI issues in counseling: 

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/02/1122871/therapists-using-chatgpt-secretly/

https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/ai-therapy-dangers-mental-health-risks/

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/raine-vs-openai-et-al-complaint.pdf

 I also do not use AI to write the information on this website. All the words are my own so you can get to know me.

I moved to Spokane in 1985, fell in love with this area, and have lived in the Pacific Northwest since then. I got my degree and started counseling in 1999 and began offering online counseling in Washington state in 2018.

I am a proud mother and grandmother.

I enjoy reading and learning, landscaping, gardening, knitting, jigsaw puzzles, and traveling. I am an avid foodie.

I also enjoy unusual or beautiful cloud formations, northern lights, or sunsets, and I have shared some of my favorites pics I have taken of those on this website.