About Cheryl
Cheryl Marrow is a licensed counselor who helps people facing relationship strain, addiction concerns, and big life changes. She brings 25 years of experience and a steady, practical approach to conversations about intimacy, stress, and self-esteem. Cheryl works in the District of Columbia and offers sessions in English, including options for international clients.
Her style is down-to-earth and focused on the person in front of her. She uses tried methods to help people notice patterns, try new behaviors, and rebuild trust in themselves and their relationships.
Background and approach
Meetings are conversational and goal-oriented rather than full of jargon. Cheryl commonly addresses difficult topics like abandonment, codependency, and family of origin issues. She also supports people dealing with divorce, infidelity, blended family concerns, and substance use problems.
Sessions often include practical skills for coping with anger, anxiety, and life transitions. She draws on approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior tools, emotionally focused techniques, and elements of the Gottman Method. Those approaches are mixed to match each person's needs and goals over time.
Practical matters are part of the plan too. Cheryl uses video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit therapy into busy schedules. Cost varies with location and is billed through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Options
Cheryl often blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify what matters to them and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Client-centered work focuses on listening and building a trusting therapeutic relationship, while CBT provides step-by-step techniques to manage anxiety, stress, and patterns that get in the way.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy tools for emotion regulation and coping skills when strong emotional reactions or relationship conflicts come up. DBT-based skills teach practical ways to tolerate distress, communicate clearly, and reduce reactive behaviors in everyday life.
Choosing an approach is collaborative. Cheryl will talk with the client about goals and try methods that suit their situation. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan based on progress and preference so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video sessions allow visual connection for relationship work, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat or text are useful for short check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on practical change and steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia
- Languages
- English