About Cheryl
Cheryl Tan-Bell offers calm, practical support for people facing relationship strain and major life changes. She greets worried parents and adults with a straightforward, non-judgemental style and helps them focus on small, useful steps. Cheryl is a PACFA counsellor with 15 years of experience in Australia and brings a steady, patient presence to sessions.
She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. Cheryl also draws on client-centred work to make space for a person's own priorities and on cognitive behavioural techniques to address unhelpful thinking.
How Cheryl works
In practice this means she helps people name patterns, try practical experiments, and review what works. Many clients come for help with relationship and family issues, grief, trauma and stress. Cheryl also supports people dealing with anxiety, low self-esteem, intimacy concerns, career difficulties and compassion fatigue.
She is familiar with topics such as attachment wounds, abandonment, codependency and blended family challenges. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Cheryl aims to create a respectful space where emotions can be talked through and clear next steps agreed.
She encourages small changes that fit day-to-day life and checks in often about what is helpful. People seeking therapy start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions to suit them. Cheryl offers a practical, compassionate approach for those ready to make change and build more satisfying relationships and coping skills.
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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | PACFA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
How Cheryl’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current responses to stress and conflict; online sessions can be used to identify attachment patterns and practise new ways of relating. Client-centred therapy focuses on the person’s priorities and pacing, with the counsellor following the client’s lead to build clarity and confidence. Cognitive behavioural techniques give simple tools to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, which are easy to practise between online sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process and Cheryl works collaboratively to choose methods that suit each person. She will discuss goals, preferences and day-to-day demands, and adapt the mix of attachment, client-centred or CBT tools to fit what the client wants to achieve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different situations. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can suit quick check-ins or ongoing coaching-style support. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between meetings.
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