About Cheryl
Cheryl Pickering is a licensed clinical social worker in Arizona with 30 years of practice. She draws on long experience to help people facing anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and self-esteem struggles. Cheryl centers care on each person’s needs and goals.
Over her career she has supported people managing stress, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, and sleep problems. She also addresses career strain, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and the emotional toll of caregiving.
Background and approach
Additional areas include chronic illness, cancer-related stress, hoarding, and blended family challenges. Her style is calm and practical. She listens first, then works with people to set clear, manageable goals.
Sessions focus on small steps that fit daily life rather than abstract exercises. Cheryl uses client-centered methods to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space. She pairs that with cognitive behavioral techniques that help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Together these approaches aim to reduce symptoms and build coping skills people can use between sessions. People who prefer steady guidance and practical tools tend to fit well with her approach. Cheryl is experienced supporting caregivers and women navigating big life transitions.
She practices in Arizona and conducts sessions in English.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s lead to create a respectful, empathetic space. It helps when someone needs to talk through emotions, clarify values, or build self-understanding. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, works on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is helpful for anxiety, depression, sleeping problems, and stress by teaching practical skills to apply between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with clients to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying techniques together and adjusting the plan if something does not fit or produce the expected benefit.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video lets people read facial cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins and written reflections between sessions. These options increase flexibility and help people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and other demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English