About Cherish
Cherish Krisciunas is a Florida licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 12 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship challenges. She brings a warm, respectful presence to sessions and focuses on listening first. Her style is collaborative and focused on practical steps that fit each person's life.
Her work centers on client-centered care that blends several evidence-based methods. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thought patterns and acceptance-based ideas to help people move toward what matters.
Background and approach
Attachment-informed perspectives guide work on close relationships and intimacy concerns. Sessions are practical and down-to-earth. Cherish helps people break problems into manageable steps and builds tools they can use between meetings.
She pays attention to emotions, behavior, and patterns that keep people stuck, and then practices new ways of responding together in session. Over 12 years she has supported people through a wide range of concerns including family conflict, trauma and abuse, caregiving stress, end-of-life issues, career shifts, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses topics such as abandonment, communication problems, infidelity, and isolation or loneliness. Cherish emphasizes a strong working relationship and clear goals. People can expect to leave sessions with concrete coping strategies, better clarity about next steps, and skills to manage anxiety and life transitions.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes noticing thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, then choosing actions that reflect personal values; it is often used for anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and it is useful for managing anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds affect current intimacy and communication.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s needs and adjust the plan over time in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video lets people read facial cues and practice new ways of relating. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging offer quick access for brief updates, coaching moments, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep progress moving between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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