About Cherrise
Cherrise Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Washington who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, and relationship concerns. She focuses on mood and self-esteem issues, as well as depression and panic symptoms. Her style is warm and direct, aiming to make conversations clear and useful for everyday life.
She uses a relational, collaborative approach in sessions. That means she works together with each person to identify what feels stuck and what practical steps might help.
Background and approach
Sessions often look at how past experiences shape current feelings and behaviors, so people can try new ways of coping and relating. The work often includes building skills for managing strong emotions and reducing anxiety or panic attacks. Cherrise also helps people address attachment and abandonment concerns, communication challenges, and caregiver stress.
She supports exploration of life purpose, forgiveness, and moving through grief or separation. Cherrise draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor plans to each person. Over eight years of practice she has helped many people move from feeling overwhelmed to having clearer tools and goals.
Her sessions balance compassion with straightforward feedback to keep progress moving. People meet by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Sessions are scheduled to match each person’s needs, and the subscription model can be canceled at any time.
Scheduling begins by completing a short matching questionnaire and choosing a time that works.
Practical approaches for online anxiety care
Cherrise uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on reducing symptoms and building coping skills. One approach centers on skill building for emotion regulation and anxiety management, teaching step-by-step strategies people can use during stress or panic moments. Another approach looks at attachment and past relationship patterns to understand how earlier experiences affect current reactions and relationships, which can free up different choices in daily life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and the person work together to identify goals, try methods, and adjust what’s used based on what helps most. That means plans can change over time as needs and preferences become clearer.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people have a fuller face-to-face conversation when time allows. Phone sessions can fit into shorter breaks or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow quick check-ins, journaling support, or ongoing coaching-style messages between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy routine while maintaining consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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