About Cheryl
Dr. Cheryl Affrunti brings a warm, person-centered approach to helping people manage anxiety and related concerns. She is a licensed clinical professional (LCP) based in Florida with 14 years of experience.
Her style is straightforward and respectful, focused on listening first and working with each person’s goals. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) alongside cognitive behavioral and mindfulness techniques. Those methods help people notice unhelpful thoughts, shift unhelpful reactions, and re-engage with what matters to them.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused work are used when someone wants practical steps and clearer next moves. Her experience includes supporting people with stress, depression, bipolar conditions, ADHD, addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep and eating struggles, and concerns about relationships or intimacy. She has also worked with veterans and first responders affected by physical and emotional trauma.
Dr. Affrunti listens for each person’s strengths and builds on what is already working. Sessions are collaborative.
The therapist asks questions, reflects what she hears, and helps people try small changes between visits. She focuses on skills that can be used in daily life, like brief mindfulness exercises, behavior experiments, and values-based actions. People who prefer different ways of working can expect flexibility in approach.
Dr. Affrunti aims to help clients find clearer direction, manage symptoms, and make steady progress toward the life they want.
How ACT, CBT, and Person-Centered Work Translate to Online Care
Dr. Affrunti draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people name what matters most and take small actions toward those values. ACT often involves noticing thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate behavior, which can reduce the hold of anxiety and avoidance. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. CBT offers practical exercises and experiments that clients can try between sessions to see what changes. The person-centered side means sessions begin with listening and reflecting so therapy fits each person’s needs and goals. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each client to decide whether ACT, CBT, mindfulness, or motivational interviewing best matches their situation and preferences. This shared decision-making guides how sessions proceed. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and messaging or live chat supports ongoing coaching-style contact between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let people choose the way that fits their routine and comfort.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Illinois
- Languages
- English
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