About Cherie
Cherie Bailey is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Delaware with 15 years of experience. She helps people facing family conflict, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and struggles with self-esteem and life changes. Cherie emphasizes that each person knows their own story and can build on their strengths to move forward.
Her practice centers on respectful listening and practical steps. Sessions focus on clear goals and small changes that add up.
Background and approach
She uses tools from several approaches to match what each person needs in the moment. Cherie often works with people dealing with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment and blended family issues, and the fallout from domestic violence. She also supports those wrestling with guilt, shame, fertility struggles, and postpartum depression.
Her experience includes helping people process post-traumatic stress and family of origin problems. In session she combines client-centered care with methods that address thinking patterns, emotions, and motivation. That can mean building skills to manage upsetting thoughts, strengthening emotional connection, or clarifying values and goals.
The focus is practical: better communication, healthier boundaries, and more confidence in daily life. Cherie welcomes conversations about what someone needs right now and what might help next. She aims to create steady, manageable steps toward clearer relationships and a more stable sense of self.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small committed steps toward those values. It is often useful for managing anxiety, life transitions, and motivation struggles. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and supporting a person’s own insight and choices. It helps people who need space to reflect and build confidence at their own pace.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they decide which tools to try and adjust the plan over time based on how things are going.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging can fit quick check-ins, brief coaching between sessions, or steady support when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, childcare, and other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Delaware
- Languages
- English