About Cheryl
Cheryl Bauer is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She listens with respect and responds with practical steps. Her tone is calm and direct to make starting therapy feel easier.
Cheryl draws on seven years of work supporting people through addiction and the aftermath of trauma and abuse. She helps people process grief and navigate big life changes. Sessions focus on understanding what feels overwhelming now and finding small, manageable changes to try.
Background and approach
Her approach is tailored to each person. Conversations and plans are shaped around the client’s needs and daily life. She emphasizes clear goals and skills that can be practiced between sessions.
Cheryl also addresses relationship-related concerns such as attachment and abandonment issues, communication problems, and isolation or loneliness. She works with mood challenges and post-traumatic stress when those come up in conversation. Practical matters like workplace stress, guilt and shame, control issues, and struggles with self-love are part of her work.
She supports people exploring life purpose and women’s specific concerns. Her aim is to make progress feel tangible and realistic. Cheryl is licensed in Indiana as an LCSW.
Sessions are available through online formats so people can choose what fits their schedule and life. She encourages the first step and helps clients move forward at their own pace.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care
Cheryl uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical skills and emotional processing. One common approach she relies on teaches breathing, grounding, and thought-checking strategies to reduce anxiety and manage stress in the moment. These tools help when worry or panic start to interfere with everyday tasks.Another strand of her work involves trauma-informed methods that help people process past hurt at a manageable pace. This involves pacing conversations, identifying triggers, and building coping skills to reduce reactivity over time. These techniques can help with grief, post-traumatic stress, and the emotional fallout from abuse.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Cheryl collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts plans as progress is made and as priorities change.
Online formats make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller connection is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, skill coaching between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options let people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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