About Cheri
Cheri Gillings is a counsellor in the United Kingdom who supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and addiction recovery. She also helps with motivation, self‑esteem, confidence and career or executive coaching. Cheri aims to create an open, non-judgemental space where clients can speak freely and feel heard.
Cheri uses a direct but compassionate style. Sessions focus on practical steps and small changes that make daily life easier. She listens for what matters most to each person and keeps goals realistic and relevant.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on a mix of evidence-informed methods. Cheri uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept difficult feelings while committing to values-based actions. She also applies Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build more useful habits.
Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are often woven into sessions to help manage distress in the moment and to find simple, forward-looking solutions. The emphasis is on tools clients can use between meetings, not just in them. Cheri holds BACP registration and has six years of professional therapeutic experience.
She offers sessions in English and practices from the perspective of someone who values respect, clarity and steady progress.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Cheri commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice and accept difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match personal values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and building practical skills to change behaviours and moods.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Cheri works collaboratively to identify which methods fit a person's goals and day-to-day needs. She will tailor techniques over time, checking in and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for people seeking support. Video calls let sessions feel face to face when that is preferred. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a quicker check-in. Live chat and text‑based messaging suit shorter, ongoing support between sessions or for people who prefer written exchanges. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family or other commitments and to continue therapy even when travel is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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