About Cheryl
Cheryl Pacione is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of experience helping people make practical changes in their lives. She offers a direct, solution-focused approach that aims to uncover habits and beliefs getting in the way of feeling better. Cheryl practices from New York and communicates in English.
Her sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented. She listens closely, asks pointed questions, and helps clients set clear, achievable steps.
Background and approach
Work often combines talk, gentle reframing, and real-world tasks to test what makes a difference. Cheryl has supported people facing anxiety, stress, trauma, depression, and addiction. She also helps with career concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, grief, sleep problems, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Additional focus areas include attachment struggles, adoption and foster care questions, chronic pain and illness, and exploring alternative sexual cultures. Her approach draws on client-centered methods, mindfulness, narrative techniques, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work. That mix is used to tailor sessions to each person’s needs rather than follow a single script.
Cheryl describes therapy as a collaborative effort. She helps people identify small changes they can try between sessions, then reviews what works and adjusts the plan. Many clients combine message-based contact with weekly live sessions by video or phone.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and meeting them where they are. The therapist listens without judgment and helps clients identify their own answers, which can be useful for relationship concerns, self-esteem, and life direction.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple practices to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without getting swept up in them. It can help with anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and managing strong emotions.
Narrative therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and their lives. By separating the person from the problem, clients can rewrite difficult patterns and try new behaviors in everyday situations.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy itself. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods match a client’s goals, needs, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time based on what proves helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make scheduling more flexible and can help fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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