About Cheryl
Cheryl Youngblood is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and relationship or intimacy struggles. She also supports clients dealing with sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, career concerns, and the strain that caregiving can bring.
Cheryl works with people across many life stages and identities, including those in the LGBT community and people living with ADHD. With 12 years of experience as a licensed clinician in California, Cheryl draws on a range of practical approaches.
Background and approach
She prefers a client-centered style that centers each person’s needs and goals. Cheryl mixes techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and emotionally-focused methods to address thoughts, feelings, and relationship patterns. Her background includes leadership work in foster and adoption services and experience supporting people affected by abandonment and attachment issues.
Cheryl often helps clients tackle family of origin concerns, communication problems, codependency, and the fallout from infidelity or domestic violence. Sessions emphasize clear tools and small steps. Cheryl uses solution-focused ideas, motivational interviewing, and narrative work to change unhelpful patterns and build strengths.
She also introduces breathing practices, guided imagery, and mindfulness to reduce anxiety and improve sleep. Cheryl aims for a warm, respectful tone in sessions. She helps clients set realistic goals and practices concrete skills between meetings.
The result is a practical, down-to-earth approach that focuses on what someone can do now to feel better.
How Cheryl’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and values. In practice this means the therapist listens, reflects, and helps clients decide what matters most. It works well when someone wants a respectful space to make sense of their feelings and set concrete goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Cheryl uses CBT tools to spot unhelpful thinking, try new behaviors, and reduce anxiety or low mood. This approach is useful for sleep problems, worry, and changing routines that cause distress.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and shift patterns in close relationships. It focuses on emotions and how they shape interactions, which can help with intimacy struggles and communication problems.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work together. Cheryl will discuss different approaches, try techniques, and adjust based on the client’s goals and preferences. Decisions about methods are collaborative and revisited as progress is made.
Online formats make it easier to fit sessions into daily life. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or camera use is a problem. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, short coping strategies, or staying connected between full sessions. These options provide flexibility while keeping the focus on practical change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English