About Cheryl
Cheryl Pacione is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of clinical experience based in New York. She focuses on helping people move through hard periods and find clearer direction in their lives. Cheryl aims to build trust quickly so conversations feel useful from the start.
She uses practical, goal-oriented methods that look at current problems and past patterns. Sessions often include ways to manage stress, anxiety, sleep trouble, or mood shifts and to address relationship and intimacy concerns.
How Cheryl works
Cheryl also supports people navigating career choices, addiction recovery, grief, and life transitions. Her background includes long experience with LGBTQ issues, non-monogamous relationship concerns, vocational counseling, and working with people on the autism spectrum. She brings knowledge of the Americans with Disabilities Act to conversations about work and accommodation.
Cheryl draws on several therapy styles to match what each person needs in the moment. Many clients combine live sessions with message-based communication between meetings. Cheryl works with people on issues such as parenting strain, compassion fatigue, ADHD, attachment and abandonment struggles, chronic illness, and codependency.
She helps people talk through communication problems, commitment worries, and control issues. Cheryl describes therapy as a collaborative process of making small changes that add up. She supports practical problem solving alongside deeper personal reflection.
If someone wants to explore goals, cope better day to day, or shift long-standing patterns, she helps plan clear next steps.
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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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 | New York |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Cheryl uses client-centered work that focuses on each person's goals and values, creating space to talk through what matters most and decide next steps. That approach helps with stress, relationship concerns, self-esteem worries, and many day-to-day problems.She also draws on mindfulness therapy to teach simple skills for managing anxiety, improving sleep, and reducing reactivity. Mindfulness practices are practical exercises people can use between sessions to steady their mood. Narrative therapy is another tool she may use to help people reframe their life stories and spot patterns that keep them stuck; this can be useful for trauma, grief, and identity questions.
Choosing a therapy style is a collaborative process. Cheryl works with each person to determine which approaches fit their goals, needs, and preferences, and adjusts the plan over time based on what is helpful.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be useful for quick check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy routines.
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