About Cheri
Cheri Doval is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works from Florida and uses a warm, listening style to build a trusting working relationship before selecting practical tools to try. Cheri adapts her approach to each person and their situation.
She draws on methods like cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people notice patterns, test new behaviors, and reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
For trauma-related concerns she may incorporate EMDR to address painful memories. Sessions focus on clear goals and simple steps. Cheri emphasizes small, doable changes that fit into everyday life.
She also supports people facing grief, relationship strain, addiction, or the burnout that comes from caregiving and compassion fatigue. Clients often come for help with life transitions such as divorce, adoption and foster care issues, or challenges tied to military service and post-traumatic stress. She pays attention to issues that affect women, including recovery from sexual assault and domestic violence.
Cheri frames therapy as a collaboration. She encourages people to bring questions, test different strategies, and track what helps. Her style aims to be practical, steady, and hopeful while honoring each person’s experience.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking values-based action even when uncomfortable feelings remain. It helps when worry or avoidance get in the way of living the life someone wants. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and uses simple experiments to test different ways of thinking and acting. This approach is often used for anxiety, mood struggles, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that helps people process distressing memories so they have less emotional charge and interfere less with daily life.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Cheri will listen to symptoms, goals, and preferences, then suggest methods to try together. She adjusts the plan over time based on what helps and what does not, so the work stays practical and focused on real-life change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are ideal for more in-depth sessions when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions, send short updates, or use therapy during a busy day. These options make it easier to fit care around work, family, or travel while keeping the therapeutic process consistent.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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