About Cheryl
Cheryl Loomis uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strains, career concerns, and major life changes. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - with 18 years of experience. Cheryl holds ME LCSW LC22755 and OR LCSW L6551 and practices from Washington.
She speaks English. Cheryl focuses on practical steps people can take during hard moments. She helps clients build better communication, repair trust, and increase emotional closeness in committed partnerships.
Background and approach
Cheryl also provides support for attention and ADHD-related challenges, as well as coping strategies for workplace and life transitions. Her approach is respectful and down-to-earth. Conversations are tailored to each person’s needs and paced to match comfort and readiness.
Cheryl aims to offer clear tools for daily life alongside space to process the feelings behind difficult choices. She has worked with a wide range of concerns beyond the core areas, including caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, body image, hoarding, immigration issues, and grief from separation or loss.
Those topics often come with overlapping stressors, and Cheryl helps people sort priorities and take manageable steps forward. Cheryl emphasizes collaboration when creating a plan. She invites clients to set goals together and to track progress in practical ways.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and Cheryl provides steady support through that early work.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Cheryl centers her work on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and practical change. One common approach emphasizes building communication skills and trust in relationships through structured exercises and guided conversations that help partners express needs and repair hurt. Another approach targets attention and executive challenges by teaching strategies for organization, routine building, and impulse management to reduce daily stress and improve focus.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Cheryl works collaboratively with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust plans as progress unfolds. She discusses options and tailors methods to fit the client’s lifestyle, values, and priorities.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer check-ins. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or when a shorter, focused conversation is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework prompts, or when ongoing conversational support fits someone’s routine. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapeutic momentum.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, Maine
- Languages
- English