About Cheri
Cheri Donahue is a licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, trauma and depression. Cheri speaks English and practices in Florida as an LMHC.
She aims to make therapy readable and practical for busy families. Cheri uses straightforward conversations to help people name what feels hard and try small, useful changes. She listens for patterns such as abandonment, attachment struggles, control issues, or codependency and helps people break unhelpful cycles.
Background and approach
Many clients bring concerns about body image, caregiving stress, or the emotional impact of illness, and she addresses those issues directly. Her background includes long experience with complex situations like dissociation, domestic violence, divorce and separation, and co-occurring mental health and substance concerns. Cheri also supports people coping with aging, cancer, and disaster-related stress.
She emphasizes practical coping skills and steady pacing to avoid overwhelming people during difficult moments. Sessions combine talking, problem solving, and skill building tailored to each person's needs. Cheri helps clients set small goals and track progress so change feels manageable.
She aims to create a calm, focused space where people can figure out next steps and build day-to-day strength. People who want clear, experience-based guidance and a practical approach may find her style helpful. The first meetings typically focus on understanding immediate concerns and choosing a path forward that fits daily life.
Approach and options for online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on practical skills and understanding patterns. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and practicing new, healthier responses in everyday situations. This helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching concrete tools to manage symptoms. Another strand concentrates on working through trauma and attachment wounds at a manageable pace, using gradual processing and stabilization techniques to reduce overwhelm and improve relationships.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about current needs, goals, and personal preferences, and together they will try methods that fit daily life. Sessions can adapt over time as goals change or new challenges appear.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face time for deeper conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins, between-session support, and a way to fit therapy into a busy schedule. These options make it easier to keep regular work on goals while balancing family, medical appointments, or caregiving duties.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English