About Cheryl
Cheryl Fraley is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of experience. She focuses on practical, person-centered care that starts with listening and understanding each person’s situation. She uses approaches that help people name what’s hard and try clear steps to feel better.
Cheryl works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, addictions, and intimacy-related concerns. She also helps people coping with life changes and compassion fatigue, and supports those dealing with ADHD and self-esteem struggles.
How Cheryl works
Her practice includes family-related issues such as parenting challenges, blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment difficulties, and communication problems. Cheryl also supports people facing divorce and separation, domestic violence aftermath, caregiver stress, and feelings of isolation or loneliness. Cheryl blends client-centered conversation with goal-focused techniques.
She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thinking and solution-focused methods to identify small, useful steps. Motivational interviewing helps when making difficult behavior changes, such as overcoming impulsivity or addictions. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs and paced to what feels manageable.
Cheryl aims to make therapy straightforward and respectful, helping people build coping skills and clearer next steps. She invites people to start by sharing what matters most to them.
Cheryl lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Cheryl works with
The areas below are the ones Cheryl selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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
How Cheryl’s Approaches Work Online
Cheryl uses client-centered therapy to make room for a person’s own priorities, focusing first on listening and understanding. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance, clearer thinking about their next steps, or relief from overwhelming feelings.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to spot patterns of thinking that feed anxiety or depression and to practice different ways of responding. CBT is useful for stress, low mood, ADHD-related struggles, and unhelpful habits that affect daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Cheryl will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods based on personal goals, comfort with techniques, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That shared planning helps make sessions feel relevant and focused.
Online sessions can fit different needs and rhythms. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing expressions matters. Phone sessions can be a good fit for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in in writing or use messaging for brief updates between sessions. These options give flexibility for busy schedules, caregiving demands, and people who prefer not to travel to appointments.
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