About Cheryl
Cheryl Coney is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has been practicing since 2007. She brings 15 years of experience across inpatient, residential, and outpatient settings. Cheryl focuses on helping people move from stuck patterns into practical change.
She works with a wide range of concerns such as anxiety, depression, addictions, OCD symptoms, ADHD, grief, and anger. Cheryl also helps with relationship strain, parenting stress, career challenges, and compassion fatigue. Her goal is to help people define what success looks like for them and take concrete steps toward it.
Background and approach
Cheryl’s style is warm and interactive. She offers respect, sensitivity, and what she describes as unconditional positive regard. Sessions focus on exploring feelings, testing assumptions, and identifying behaviors that get in the way of a healthier life.
Her approach combines Client-Centered Therapy with cognitive-behavioral and dialectical strategies. She tailors conversations and the treatment plan to each person’s needs, and she values the client’s input in shaping goals and next steps. Cheryl trained in social work at the undergraduate level and completed a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology.
She uses that background to blend practical skills with attention to personal values. Her aim is to help people build confidence and find workable solutions for daily life.
Approach and online therapy options
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and values. The therapist listens closely, reflects what is heard, and helps people steer sessions toward what matters most. This approach is useful when someone wants a respectful space to figure out priorities and next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going. Sessions teach practical skills to change thinking patterns and test new behaviors. CBT is often chosen for anxiety, depression, OCD patterns, and anger management.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, blends acceptance with change. It teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and relationship skills. DBT-style techniques can help when emotions feel overwhelming or when someone needs better coping tools.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cheryl treats this as a collaborative process and will help a client decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they shape goals and adjust methods as progress is made.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging lets people fit care into busy lives. Video works well for deeper conversations; phone can be easier on days with low bandwidth; chat or text suits brief check-ins or when messaging feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to keep consistent momentum and apply new skills between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English