About Cheryl
Cheryl Martin greets readers directly and focuses on helping people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or burned out. She makes space for honest conversation about stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, self-esteem, and life changes. Cheryl is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with 15 years of clinical experience and a long history in community mental health.
Her style is warm and person-centered. Sessions begin with listening to what matters most to the individual.
How Cheryl works
From there she collaborates on clear, practical steps to reduce symptoms and build coping skills. Cheryl uses tools from several approaches to match what each person needs. Over her career she has worked with concerns such as relationship strain, parenting challenges, career questions, compassion fatigue, and post-traumatic stress.
She also focuses on issues like abandonment, communication problems, divorce and separation, loneliness, and finding life purpose. Her experience includes both short-term problem solving and deeper, longer-term work. Cheryl draws on client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused methods, EMDR, and psychodynamic ideas depending on the situation.
She speaks English and Tagalog, and practices in California. Her goal is to help people feel more grounded and able to move forward. People who start with Cheryl can expect straightforward guidance, gentle challenge, and practical skills they can use between sessions.
She aims to make therapy understandable and relevant to day-to-day life.
Cheryl lists 7 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English, Tagalog |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Cheryl Uses Different Therapies Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on hearing the person's experience without judgment and building goals together. Online sessions using this approach often begin with open conversation so the therapist can understand what matters most and what small changes feel useful.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete ways to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. In remote work this can look like short exercises between sessions, thought records shared over messaging, and practice during video calls to try new coping skills.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name emotions and shift patterns in close relationships. Online EFT sessions can guide conversations about attachment and help clients practice new ways of connecting and communicating.
Cheryl treats finding the right approach as a shared process. Together the therapist and client review needs, goals, and preferences and try methods that fit. Adjustments are made as progress and obstacles become clear so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face work when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick reflections, between-session coaching, or gradual starts for people who prefer writing. These options help fit therapy into work, parenting, and other commitments.
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