About Cherise
Dr. Cherise Murphy-McNear uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people manage stress and anxiety. She is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 21 years of experience.
Her approach is straightforward and focused on day-to-day improvements that matter to families and individuals. She works with people who want relief from anxiety, relationship strain, low self-esteem, or the overwhelm that comes with life changes. Sessions aim to build coping skills and clearer thinking so problems feel more manageable.
Background and approach
She adapts conversations and goals to each person’s situation rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Her work also addresses deeper patterns such as attachment concerns, abandonment worries, and family of origin issues. She supports people dealing with separation, blended family challenges, and the complicated feelings that follow divorce.
There is attention to topics some find sensitive, including kink and alternative sexual cultures, and issues tied to gender dysphoria. Practical tools and direct feedback are part of the process. She helps clients notice how past patterns influence current choices and then practices new behaviors in session.
Over time the focus shifts from just feeling better to handling triggers and stress with more confidence. Sessions may include conversations about first responder stress, codependency, control or commitment difficulties, guilt and shame, and the search for meaning or emptiness. She invites people to take small steps that fit their life and goals.
Approaches that translate to online care
Dr. Murphy-McNear uses evidence-based techniques that translate well to remote sessions. One approach focuses on teaching coping skills and behavioral strategies to reduce anxiety and stress, helping people practice small changes that lower day-to-day worry. Another approach looks at patterns in relationships and attachment, helping clients recognize recurring reactions and try new ways of relating that reduce conflict and isolation.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will discuss goals and preferences with each person and adjust methods over time so therapy stays useful and relevant to their life. The plan is always practical and tailored rather than fixed from the start.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversational work and role-play, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or times when typing feels easier, and text can support ongoing practice between conversations. These options give flexibility for fitting therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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