About Cheri
Cheri Donahue helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or low self-esteem. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of practice in Florida. Cheri writes and speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Cheri uses clear, down-to-earth conversation to identify what is causing distress. She breaks problems into manageable parts so clients can try small changes and notice results.
How Cheri works
Sessions tend to be collaborative and directed toward real-life goals, such as improving sleep, reducing worry, or coping with loss. Her work has included many kinds of trauma and abuse, and she supports people who are dealing with the emotional aftermath. Cheri also addresses issues tied to relationships of attachment and abandonment, and she helps people understand patterns that keep repeating.
She provides care for those facing illness, caregiving stress, or aging-related concerns, and she helps people manage body image and self-worth struggles. Cheri also works with depression, dissociation, and the effects of domestic violence or separation. In sessions she pays attention to how symptoms affect daily life and offers straightforward tools for coping.
Her approach blends real-world strategies with steady support so clients can build more confidence over time.
What Cheri works with
The areas below are the ones Cheri selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online support
Cheri draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical coping and processing. One approach emphasizes skill-building to reduce anxiety and stress by using manageable steps and repeated practice to change unhelpful patterns. Another approach focuses on processing trauma and abuse in a paced way so people can begin to feel safer in daily life and notice reductions in intrusive memories or hypervigilance.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to try and when to change course.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help the process. Phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not desirable. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, mood tracking, or when quick support fits a busy day. These options make it easier to attend sessions from different locations and schedules while keeping continuity of care.
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