About Cheryl
Cheryl Coney is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 15 years of experience helping people navigate difficult moments. She works with adults who are facing anxiety, depression, addiction, ADHD, grief, and stress. Cheryl focuses on practical steps people can try right away to feel steadier and more capable.
Her background includes work in residential, inpatient, and outpatient settings. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Social Work and a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology.
Background and approach
Those years in varied settings gave her experience with obsessive thoughts, compulsions, personality concerns, and self-harm behaviors. Cheryl’s style is warm and interactive. She centers the person in front of her and listens for what matters most.
Sessions often include goal-focused conversation, skill building, and encouragement to try small changes between meetings. She blends approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. That mix lets her tailor sessions to where someone is right now and what they want to change next.
Cheryl aims to help people identify realistic goals and take manageable steps toward them. She avoids labels that limit people and focuses on boosting confidence. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Cheryl often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change related behaviors. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related difficulties, and habits that get in the way of daily life.She also integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and stronger interpersonal communication. DBT tools are practical for intense emotions, anger, and improving coping during stressful moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cheryl will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then choose or blend approaches together. She sees therapy as a collaboration and adjusts plans based on what helps most over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a break during the day, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to use skills in real life and maintain momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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