About Cheryl
Cheryl Velasquez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on practical strategies to help people feel steadier in daily life. She draws on five years of clinical experience to help clients build coping skills, improve self-esteem, and manage depression and career stress. Her work is straightforward and collaborative.
She listens first, then helps people identify small, do-able steps they can use between sessions. Cheryl uses tools like stress management, mindfulness, and skills practice to make coping feel more reliable and concrete.
Background and approach
Cheryl has worked in hospitals, outpatient therapy, school-based services, and community mental health settings. She has also held team lead roles while continuing direct client work. That mix of settings gives her experience with a wide range of life challenges and service systems.
She often helps people facing major life changes, caregiver strain, or compassion fatigue. Other common concerns she addresses include body image, isolation, communication problems, grief from divorce or separation, and financial stress. She pays attention to cultural background and how it shapes each person’s experience.
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. Cheryl aims for a warm, person-centered style that supports people at their own pace. She encourages practical coping, clearer priorities, and small changes that add up over time.
Evidence-based approaches for online support
Cheryl uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills you can practice between sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice links between thoughts, feelings, and actions, and then try small experiments to change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness-based strategies teach simple attention and breathing exercises that reduce stress and improve focus. She also draws on strengths-based work to identify what’s already working and build from there.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Cheryl will listen to your goals and preferences, try methods that fit your situation, and adjust the plan as you go. The aim is to find concrete tools that feel useful in everyday life rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for longer therapy sessions and face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to get quick support or to share progress between scheduled meetings. These options offer flexibility to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English, Spanish