About Cheri
Cheri Donahue is a licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She meets people where they are and focuses on clear, practical steps that reduce overwhelm. Her approach is straightforward and warm, aimed at making time in therapy feel useful and manageable.
Cheri helps people address trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She also supports those coping with abandonment, attachment concerns, body image struggles, caregiver stress, and the emotional impact of serious illness.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to calm racing thoughts, restore routines, and build coping skills that fit daily life. Her work emphasizes understanding how past experiences shape current reactions. She listens for patterns that keep people stuck and offers ways to test new behaviors.
Therapy may include talking through difficult memories, practicing new ways to communicate, or developing steps to regain a sense of control. Cheri draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to create practical plans. She adapts strategies to each person’s pace and needs, using short-term goals when that helps and deeper exploration when needed.
Progress is measured in small, concrete changes rather than abstract promises. Sessions are available in Florida and conducted in English. Cheri offers multiple online formats so people can choose the way that works best for their schedule.
To begin, prospective clients complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and building coping skills. Cognitive approaches help people identify and shift patterns of thinking that fuel anxiety and depression. These techniques often include practical exercises to test new thoughts and reduce worry.Trauma-focused strategies help people process difficult memories in small, controlled steps. This work usually emphasizes safety, pacing, and learning skills to manage strong emotions. For grief and loss, structured support can help people name their feelings and find routines that bring back stability.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Cheri works collaboratively to choose methods that match each person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts pacing and tools over time, checking in regularly to see what helps and what needs to change.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people keep face-to-face connection without travel. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or video is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, written reflection, and flexible scheduling. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while using approaches that address anxiety, trauma, and mood concerns.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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