About Cheryl
Cheryl Comfort is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Arkansas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and self-esteem struggles. She also supports those dealing with relationship strain, grief, addiction concerns, and major life changes. Her tone is compassionate and straightforward, aimed at people who need practical help and steady support.
Sessions focus on what matters day to day. She listens first, then works with each person to set small, useful goals.
Background and approach
Conversations often include skill practice for managing strong feelings, improving communication, and coping with changes at work or home. Cheryl draws from several evidence-informed approaches. She uses techniques that help people notice unhelpful thoughts, commit to meaningful actions, and strengthen important relationships.
The work is collaborative - clients and therapist decide what to try together. Her style is calm and direct. Cheryl aims to make things easier to understand and to offer tools people can use between sessions.
She supports people through parenting stress, body image concerns, ADHD-related challenges, and issues tied to adoption or attachment when those topics arise. With eight years of experience, Cheryl brings practical experience with grief, intimacy-related issues, codependency, and compassion fatigue. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes, with attention to each person’s values and real-life responsibilities.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions are hard. It is useful for depression, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing patterns of unhelpful thinking and testing out new behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, mood concerns, and stress management. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Cheryl will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping the process collaborative and goal-focused.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer discussion time. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is not desirable. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, or when a shorter touchpoint fits someone’s day. These options help people fit counseling into busy schedules without traveling to an office.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas
- Languages
- English