About Cheryl
Cheryl Breining is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, parenting concerns, self-esteem, and ADHD. She speaks plainly and offers steady support for day-to-day struggles. Cheryl aims to make it easier to take the first step toward feeling better.
She creates an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can say what they think and feel. Conversations focus on practical steps you can try between sessions. Cheryl listens, reflects, and helps sort through options so people can make choices that fit their lives.
Background and approach
Her practice emphasizes small, achievable changes. That might include new routines to reduce overwhelm, communication ideas to try with others, or ways to handle impulses and worry. Cheryl tailors suggestions to each person’s priorities and pace.
With three years of professional experience and a Florida LCSW (licensed clinical social worker), she brings recent clinical practice to everyday problems. Her background includes work with people facing divorce and separation, midlife transitions, and struggles around life purpose and forgiveness. Sessions often cover communication problems, control issues, social anxiety, and women’s issues.
Cheryl also supports people coping with impulsivity and low motivation. She aims to help clients build confidence and clearer direction in life.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Many people benefit from brief, practical approaches that teach skills for managing difficult feelings. One common method focuses on skill-building for anxiety and impulsivity by practicing specific techniques to reduce immediate stress and improve focus. Another approach emphasizes changing unhelpful thinking patterns and trying small behavioral experiments to test new ways of coping with worry and low motivation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels doable. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust plans as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and goal-oriented.
Online therapy offers several practical advantages. Video calls allow more face-to-face conversation when visual connection helps. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick updates, tracking progress, or when typing out thoughts feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into busy schedules and to keep support consistent over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English