About Cheryl
Cheryl Fraley uses a client-centered approach paired with practical techniques to help people get through hard times. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and she brings 25 years of experience to sessions. Cheryl focuses on real problems people face every day and tries to make therapy feel manageable.
Cheryl often helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and grief. She also supports those coping with trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and addiction issues.
Background and approach
Concerns like low self-esteem, anger, impulsivity, and isolation are also common topics in her work. Her practice pays attention to family-related stresses such as blended family challenges, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and divorce or separation. Cheryl also works with caregivers facing burnout and with people navigating intellectual disability, autism, or dependent personality traits.
Sessions are shaped around each person's needs. Cheryl blends client-centered conversation with tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and motivational techniques, so people leave with clear steps they can use between sessions. She aims for straightforward talk and practical goals rather than jargon.
Cheryl is based in Florida and conducts work in English. She recognizes that starting therapy can feel difficult and she offers patient guidance through the early steps. The first meeting is about listening, understanding goals, and planning a path forward.
Approaches that guide online care
Cheryl blends client-centered work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to make online sessions both listening-focused and action-oriented. Client-Centered Therapy starts by treating the person's concerns as important and shaping sessions around what the person brings to the room; it helps people feel heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replaces them with practical strategies that reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Cheryl will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as needs change. That collaborative planning helps ensure sessions focus on clear, achievable steps.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different situations. Video calls work well for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and messaging is useful for ongoing reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to connect when schedules are tight or travel is difficult, while keeping the focus on progress and usable tools.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English