About Raquel
Raquel Cherry helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She works with clients on coping with life changes, grief, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, and issues around intimacy and depression. She also supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, ADHD, and questions about life purpose and money.
Raquel is a licensed professional in both the District of Columbia and Virginia. She holds the credential LICSW and also lists LCSW, and she brings nine years of clinical experience to her work.
Background and approach
Her style is respectful and direct. She aims to make conversations practical and focused on clear next steps. In sessions she tailors the plan to each person’s needs.
She uses a mix of client-centered listening, cognitive tools, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and brief solution-focused methods. That lets her combine skills to match the problem at hand and the client’s goals. Clients can expect a calm, collaborative approach.
Raquel emphasizes empathy while helping people develop skills that change daily life. She explains ideas plainly and helps people practice new responses between sessions. Her additional areas of focus include blended family issues, communication problems, first responder concerns, self-love, women’s issues, and young adult adjustments.
Raquel works from Virginia and conducts sessions in English.
How Raquel’s Approaches Work Online
Raquel uses client-centered therapy to keep the conversation focused on what matters most to the client. This approach involves active listening and tailoring questions so the person’s goals drive the work. It is useful for people who need a supportive space to clarify values and priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical strategies to shift them. CBT helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by offering specific skills to test unhelpful thoughts and change reactions. Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens together. Raquel will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. The collaboration makes it easier to pick methods that fit a person’s life and goals. Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls work well for longer therapeutic work, while phone sessions can be simpler when low bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone needs flexible, on-the-go contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep progress moving forward.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia, Virginia
- Languages
- English