About Cheryl
Cheryl Ubelhor Kotyuk greets people with a straightforward, calm approach. She helps those feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and life transitions. Cheryl is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with four decades of experience in social services and counseling.
She works to make sessions practical and respectful so people can take small, real steps forward. Cheryl uses a client-centered way of working. She listens first and follows the client's lead to set the pace and focus.
How Cheryl works
Conversations look at what feels most urgent - sleep, anger, career pressures, or questions of purpose - and then move toward doable coping strategies. Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts from Purdue University and a Master of Social Work from Indiana University. Those years in social services and clinical practice shaped a hands-on style.
Cheryl draws on long experience helping people sort family of origin issues, communication problems, abandonment and codependency concerns, and challenges that follow divorce or separation. Sessions often address practical problems and the emotions behind them. Cheryl supports work on forgiveness, guilt and shame, intimacy worries, and compassion fatigue.
She encourages honest conversation about control issues, commitment doubts, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. Clients can expect warmth, steady listening, and a focus on what will help now. Cheryl aims to empower people to find clearer priorities, build better routines, and handle everyday stress with more confidence.
Cheryl lists one way 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
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
Client-centered care and online sessions
Cheryl practices client-centered therapy, which means she places the person's experience at the center of each session. She listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people name their priorities so sessions stay focused on what matters now. This approach is useful for anxiety, grief, relationship worries, and life transitions because it follows the client's pace.Her long experience in social services also brings practical problem-solving into sessions. That work often includes addressing sleep problems, anger, career stress, family of origin issues, and compassion fatigue with straightforward strategies and planning. The therapist and client collaborate to choose which techniques feel most helpful for day-to-day life.
Online therapy with Cheryl is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a more face-to-face feel, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit shorter check-ins, and messaging lets someone share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and reach a licensed professional from wherever the client is located.
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