About Cheri
Cheri Pfeiffer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 16 years of professional experience. She helps adults who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, and depression. Cheri also supports people facing major life changes, including medical diagnoses and end-of-life concerns.
She has a history of working with LGBT adults and offers care that respects sexual orientation and identity. Cheri focuses on building straightforward, nonjudgmental relationships. She approaches therapy as a partnership and treats each person as the expert on their life.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and aimed at helping people manage emotions and find ways forward. Her background includes long-term work with people facing serious illness, caregiving burdens, and loss. She also has experience supporting people with addiction, anger, intimacy concerns, and self-esteem struggles.
Additional areas of focus include aging and geriatric issues, cancer, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and HIV/AIDS. Cheri draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people cope and make changes. She aims to offer clear options and skills that can be used between sessions.
The tone in her work is calm, direct, and compassionate. Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled from Delaware. Cheri accepts international clients and works by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
To begin, prospective clients follow the platform's matching steps and schedule a time that fits their needs.
How evidence-based methods meet online care
Evidence-based techniques focus on practical steps people can use between sessions. One common approach Cheri uses is skills-based work that teaches breathing, grounding, and coping techniques to manage anxiety and stress. These skills help during difficult moments and in everyday life.Another common focus is grief and loss work that helps people make sense of change and process emotions after a diagnosis or bereavement. This includes space to tell your story, name difficult feelings, and identify actions that bring some relief. Those approaches are grounded in research-backed methods and applied in straightforward ways during sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Cheri will ask about goals, daily life, and what has or hasn't helped before. She partners with each person to try methods that match their needs and adjusts plans as progress is made.
Online formats make regular contact easier to keep. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit a busy day or lower bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between meetings. These options provide flexibility so therapy can fit work, caregiving, or medical schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family conflicts
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Delaware
- Languages
- English