About Cheryl
Cheryl Comfort is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and ADHD. She writes and speaks plainly, offering a calm space to talk through hard moments and build practical coping skills. Cheryl uses straightforward tools so clients can handle daily challenges more easily.
Her sessions focus on real-world skills like emotion regulation, communication, and problem solving. Cheryl draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to notice unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients focus on what matters most to them. Attachment-based work is part of her approach when relationship patterns or early losses affect current functioning. Client-centered listening guides the pace, so people lead the conversation while she reflects and offers options.
Dialectical behavior strategies are used when intense emotions or impulsive behavior make life harder. Cheryl emphasizes collaboration. She and the client set goals together and track small changes over time.
Sessions often include homework between meetings so new skills take hold in daily life. She has eight years of clinical experience and holds an LPC credential. Cheryl practices in Arkansas and works with adults facing grief, addiction issues, parenting strain, career stress, eating concerns, bipolar disorder, and related challenges.
Her tone is practical and empathic, aimed at helping people regain steadiness and move forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what values matter most and take small committed steps toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and many daily stressors.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try different strategies, and adjust the plan based on what feels helpful. Clients are invited to give feedback so the work stays aligned with their needs and pace.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets, phone sessions can be an easier option when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas
- Languages
- English
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