About Cherri
Cherri McCord is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on practical, down-to-earth help. She uses straightforward methods to help people handle anxiety, stress, depression, and addiction. She welcomes direct conversations and aims to make the first step easier for someone who is worried.
She brings 14 years of experience working with people facing difficult life changes and complicated emotions. Sessions often center on clear goals and small, doable steps so progress feels real.
Background and approach
She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where clients can speak freely. Cherri also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and change the actions that follow. Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques are used when skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are added when someone wants to build awareness or strengthen motivation to change. She supports people coping with relationship strain, parenting stress, career concerns, grief around adoption or fertility, and substance issues. Cherri addresses co-occurring problems like bipolar symptoms, seasonal mood shifts, and isolation with flexible plans.
Her style is collaborative and practical, focused on skills people can use between sessions. Cherri holds LPC and LPC-MHSP credentials and practices in Tennessee. Sessions are offered in English and are provided through phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Approaches for online anxiety and life-change work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and building a respectful connection. That approach helps people feel understood so they can talk about anxiety, parenting stress, or relationship worries without holding back.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps clients notice patterns of thought that feed anxiety and depression, then try different ways of thinking and acting. It is often paired with homework tasks so changes happen between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and getting through crisis moments. It teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication, which can help when stress or addiction is present.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and personal preferences. Together they pick tools and a plan to try in day-to-day life.
Online therapy makes scheduling more flexible. Video calls let conversations feel close to in-person sessions. Phone sessions can be a good option when a shorter check-in is needed or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, and quick progress notes between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fertility issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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