About Cherish
Cherish Brooks works with adults who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, relationship concerns, ADHD, and related life challenges. She presents a direct, forward-looking style aimed at helping people make practical changes now. Cherish holds the LPA-IP credential, which indicates her status as a licensed psychological associate with independent practice in Texas.
Cherish focuses on building a treatment plan that matches each person's needs and goals. Sessions often look ahead to goals while also revisiting the past to find where habits and coping strategies began.
How Cherish works
She uses that information to help people replace unhelpful patterns with healthier routines. Her approach blends talk-based methods with skills training and emotion work. That can include learning new ways to manage strong feelings, practicing concrete coping skills, and improving communication in relationships.
She tailors techniques to the problem at hand rather than relying on a single method. Cherish has a decade of clinical experience. Over those years she has supported people facing trauma and abuse, caregiving stress, chronic illness, adoption and foster care issues, and body image or self-esteem concerns.
She also helps people dealing with career stress, compassion fatigue, and commitment or control issues. Sessions may include coaching elements when clients want practical goal-setting and accountability. International clients may be seen and sessions are offered in English.
People who are ready to start fill out a brief questionnaire and schedule a time to meet.
Cherish lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
What Cherish works with
The areas below are the ones Cherish selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPA-IP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that fit their values; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors so symptoms like worry and low mood can improve in everyday life. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) targets strong emotions and relationship patterns by helping people name feelings and practice new ways of connecting and responding.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cherish will collaborate with each person to decide which methods best fit their goals and preferences. She adapts techniques over time based on what helps most and what the client wants to try next.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people have a conversation much like an in-person session. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter updates, real-time coaching between sessions, or those who prefer writing instead of speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and across time zones while working with licensed professionals.
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