About Cheryl
Cheryl Smart is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who uses practical, people-centred approaches to help with anxiety, stress and life changes. She holds NCPS and brings four years of experience from schools, healthcare settings and online work. Cheryl aims to offer calm, straightforward support for everyday struggles.
She focuses on problems such as anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD and difficulties with sleep or eating. She also supports people coping with grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting strain and career stress.
Background and approach
Phobias are among the concerns she works with alongside broader emotional and behavioural challenges. Cheryl adapts the way she works to each person. Conversations are tailored so clients can set the pace and goals.
She draws on approaches that help people notice patterns, try out new skills and make choices that match their values. In session she uses clear techniques from cognitive behavioural ideas and acceptance and commitment approaches alongside attachment-informed listening. Dialectical skills and a client-centred stance also shape how she responds to emotions and practical needs.
The emphasis is on what helps in daily life rather than jargon. Her background in schools and healthcare means she is used to practical problem-solving and to working with different ages and situations. Cheryl offers sessions online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging to fit people’s schedules.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions via the Start Therapy button.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Cheryl commonly uses cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to guide online work. CBT focuses on identifying thinking and behaviour patterns and trying small experiments to change unhelpful habits; it can be useful for anxiety, sleeping and eating difficulties, and low mood. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck and then take action that matches their values, which can be useful for stress, phobias and life changes.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Cheryl will discuss what matters to the client, what goals feel realistic and which methods fit their preferences. She adapts the ways she works as conversations progress so people feel involved in planning each step.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone calls can work when bandwidth is low, short live chat messages suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options let people fit therapy around work, family or other commitments while still using the chosen therapeutic approach.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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