About Cheryl
Cheryl Smart uses a practical, person-centred approach to help people move forward. She combines straightforward talking, active listening and tools from evidence-informed therapies to make change feel possible. Cheryl is based in the United Kingdom and holds NCPS as a credential.
She has spent four years working across schools, healthcare settings and online services. She helps with stress and anxiety, low mood and depression, and difficulties linked to trauma and abuse.
How Cheryl works
She also supports people facing grief, parenting strains, eating and sleeping problems, and life changes such as career shifts or caring responsibilities. Cheryl works with issues around intimacy, self‑esteem, anger and attention differences such as ADHD. Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs.
Cheryl draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to build values-based action, and attachment-informed ways to understand relationship patterns. She uses elements of dialectical behaviour skills when emotional regulation is needed and keeps the client at the centre of the plan. Her style is warm, direct and respectful.
Conversations focus on practical steps that can be tried between sessions. Goals and strategies are reviewed regularly so progress is clear and adjustments are simple to make. Cheryl offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
She accepts clients from the UK and internationally. To begin, a person completes the short matching questionnaire and then books a session according to the available schedule.
Cheryl lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Cheryl’s approaches translate to online support
Cheryl blends cognitive behavioural techniques with acceptance and commitment ideas to bring practical change. CBT helps people recognise and change patterns of thinking that feed anxiety and low mood. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages choosing actions that match personal values even when feelings are difficult.She also uses attachment-informed perspectives to look at how relationship patterns affect current problems, which can help with intimacy and self-esteem issues. These approaches are explained and adapted together with each person so the plan feels relevant and workable.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Cheryl will talk through options and check in about goals and preferences, adjusting methods as progress is made. That way therapy stays aligned with what the person wants to achieve.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer typing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and day-to-day life while using the approaches above to support change.
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