About Cherena
Cherena Morlese works with people who are coping with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, depression and addiction. She is presented as calm and approachable and aims to make the first steps easier. Cherena has nine years of practice and uses straightforward, practical ways to help people manage difficult feelings and life changes.
Cherena draws on a mix of talking approaches to fit each person's needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take meaningful action.
How Cherena works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot and shift unhelpful thinking. Attachment-based ideas can help when past relationships shape present reactions. Sessions are conversational and focused on skills.
Cherena offers breathing, grounding and thought-challenging techniques, along with reflection on patterns that repeat in relationships. She also offers psychoeducation so people understand how emotions affect the body and behaviour. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which appears as BACP.
Cherena works with people across a wide range of concerns including sleep, eating, parenting stress, career worries, anger, self-esteem and coping with life transitions. Online and remote options are available for people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Cherena accepts video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging and aims to match the format to what feels most practical for each person. To begin, a person can choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a session according to the therapist's diary.
Cherena lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Cherena works with
The areas below are the ones Cherena selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Cherena’s approaches work online
Cherena commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then choose actions that match personal values. This approach can help with anxiety, low mood and major life changes.She also works with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a practical method that helps identify unhelpful thinking and change behaviours that keep problems going. CBT is useful for anxiety, sleep difficulties, eating concerns and mood management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cherena will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. That collaboration helps shape sessions and decide which techniques to use over time.
Online therapy lets people access support without travel. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text-based messaging can fit into busy days. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting and other commitments.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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