About Cheri
Cheri Mills is a licensed clinical social worker who uses client-centered and evidence-based approaches to support people through hard moments. She draws on eight years of practice in Utah to help clients facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and depression. Cheri speaks English and meets with people using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Cheri believes clients know their own story and brings curiosity rather than judgment. Sessions focus on practical steps and clear goals.
Background and approach
She listens for strengths and builds on what is already working in a person’s life. Her work often addresses relationship strain, family problems, intimacy concerns, and low self-esteem. She also helps people coping with grief, compassion fatigue, and big life changes.
Additional focuses include body image, codependency, communication problems, and issues related to substance use. Cheri uses cognitive-behavioral tools to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on mindfulness and dialectical skills to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
For trauma, she may use approaches suited to reprocessing painful memories when appropriate. Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal-oriented. Cheri helps people set realistic steps, practice new skills between meetings, and track progress.
Her role is to support, encourage, and offer tools that fit each person’s situation.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Cheri often uses client-centered methods to build a trusting working relationship, which means the conversation follows each person’s priorities and pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors that reduce anxiety and low mood. Dialectical behavior therapy offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication when emotions run high.Figuring out the best approach is part of the work together. Cheri will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That collaboration helps tailor sessions and choose techniques that make the most sense for the problem at hand.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls let people use visual cues and more in-depth conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good option for a focused check-in. Live chat or text messaging can support shorter check-ins, skill practice, and between-session contact when that format fits someone’s schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English