About Cheryl
Dr. Cheryl Mansfield helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care, aging issues, blended family challenges, body image, caregiver stress, codependency, communication breakdowns, and first responder issues.
She has more than 20 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia. Dr. Mansfield draws on a mix of practical methods to match each person’s needs.
How Cheryl works
Sessions focus on identifying what feels overwhelming, naming helpful patterns, and building concrete coping skills people can use between meetings. Her style is warm and direct. She emphasizes strengths and works collaboratively to set goals that matter to the individual.
Conversations move at the client’s pace and aim to turn insight into steady, manageable change. Therapy often blends problem-solving tools with mindfulness and motivational techniques. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy methods are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors.
Solution-focused strategies help create short-term goals and quick wins while longer patterns are addressed more slowly. Dr. Mansfield has worked across outpatient, hospital, and military settings, which informs how she adapts care to different life situations.
She offers a welcoming space for people to talk through their struggles and practice new ways of coping. Her Virginia licensure is listed as DC LICSW and VA LCSW.
Cheryl lists 6 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Registers | LICSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches fit with online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the person’s lead; it helps when someone needs a supportive space to make sense of their feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits. Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice the present moment and build simple practices to reduce reactivity and improve coping with stress.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. Plans can be adjusted over time if something isn’t working or priorities change.
Online therapy makes those approaches easier to access. Video calls let people meet face to face for deeper work, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, live chat can provide a quicker check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats offer flexibility so therapy can fit real life while using the same therapeutic tools discussed above.
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