About Cheri
Cheri Donahue is a licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. Her approach is practical and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel steadier and more capable day to day.
Cheri listens first to understand what feels most urgent. She works with each person to set clear, manageable goals. Sessions are conversational and solution-focused, with an emphasis on skills you can use between visits.
Background and approach
Over a long career in Florida she has helped people navigate abandonment, attachment struggles, and communication problems. She has also supported people dealing with caregiving strain, cancer-related concerns, body image, and the emotional aftermath of divorce and separation. Cheri has experience addressing complex situations that include co-occurring issues such as substance-related concerns, dissociation, and histories of domestic violence.
She aims to help clients reduce distress and build practical coping strategies for daily life. Sessions are available in English and offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to the therapist's availability.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many therapists who focus on anxiety and trauma use evidence-based techniques that teach concrete skills. One common approach emphasizes gradual exposure to feared situations in manageable steps to reduce avoidance and anxiety. This helps people regain confidence and widen what they can do day to day.Another frequently used approach focuses on developing coping skills for strong emotions. That includes short practices for calming the body, naming thoughts, and changing unhelpful patterns of reacting. Those skills are useful for stress, grief, and when past trauma feels overwhelming.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to a person's needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest techniques to try. Together they check what helps and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make work on these issues more flexible. Video calls let a therapist and client meet face to face when scheduling allows. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are handy for shorter check-ins and ongoing skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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