About Cheryl
Cheryl Hopkins is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 40 years of experience supporting people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, parenting challenges, and low self-esteem. She frames therapy as a practical collaboration and focuses on short, clear goals that matter to each person. Cheryl adapts conversations and plans to meet individual needs.
She listens with respect and sensitivity, and helps people name what feels most urgent. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelming feelings and build skills that help in daily life.
How Cheryl works
Her background includes long experience working with adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and aging and geriatric matters. Cheryl also addresses communication problems, commitment worries, divorce and separation, and the effects of infidelity or domestic violence on emotional recovery. She uses a mix of approaches that fit the person rather than a single method.
That can mean learning new ways to manage strong emotions, practicing different communication patterns, or shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Cheryl works with people dealing with substance use, guilt and shame, isolation or loneliness, jealousy, and forgiveness struggles. Her aim is to help clients regain a sense of control and move toward more satisfying relationships and everyday routines.
Cheryl lists 8 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
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How her approaches work in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and move toward values-based actions. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and feeling stuck by teaching simple exercises to reframe responses. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thought patterns and changing behaviors that keep problems going; it often includes practical homework tasks that build new skills between sessions.Choosing the right method is a joint process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest approaches to try. Adjustments are made as you go so the work stays relevant and useful for daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can fit into busy days and make it easier to share quick updates or get support between longer sessions.
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