About Cheryl
Cheryl Hann practices with a focus on client-centered care blended with practical therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She brings ten years of experience as a licensed professional counselor and licensed clinical mental health counselor in North Carolina. Cheryl aims to make therapy clear and direct so people feel understood and can start making changes quickly.
Her work addresses stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career struggles, and depression.
How Cheryl works
She also helps people cope with life changes, addictions, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges around intimacy and relationships. Cheryl includes coaching elements when helpful to set goals and track progress. Cheryl uses short-term strategies and longer-term skills training depending on the situation.
She often combines talk therapy with hands-on tools for managing emotions, changing unhelpful thinking, and improving communication. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit each person’s needs. Additional focus areas include body image, eating and sleeping concerns, caregiver stress, codependency, commitment and control issues, and navigating alternative sexual cultures.
She also supports people dealing with cancer impacts, co-morbid conditions, and the fallout from separation or divorce. Cheryl describes her role as supportive and empowering. She works to create a respectful, sensitive space where people can explore problems, try new coping strategies, and build a clearer path forward.
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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
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches and online sessions work together
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person’s needs. The therapist follows your lead, reflects what matters to you, and helps you find your own goals and solutions. This approach is useful when you need someone to hear your story and clarify what you want to change.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It introduces simple exercises to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. CBT is often chosen for anxiety, depression, and stress because it gives clear steps to practice between sessions.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It teaches techniques for regulating emotion, tolerating distress, and communicating more effectively. DBT can help when reactions feel overwhelming or when interactions with others keep leading to conflict.
Choosing a therapeutic approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. This way the work fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy provides flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for a full-session conversation, phone works when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share updates or process between appointments. These options make it easier to fit regular sessions into a busy life and keep momentum between meetings.
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