About Cheryl
Cheryl Chiarello is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She works with adults who are coping with depression, grief, addictions, and difficult life changes. Cheryl emphasizes listening first and making space for whatever someone brings to a session.
Cheryl believes therapy is for anyone who is human and curious about feeling better. She offers a calm place to say hard things without fear of judgment.
Background and approach
If talking feels hard, she helps people find words and ways to share what matters. Her approach blends client-centered work, motivational interviewing, and psychodynamic ideas. That means she focuses on the person in front of her, helps people find internal motivation for change, and pays attention to patterns that repeat over time.
Across 17 years of practice, Cheryl has supported people dealing with trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, codependency, caregiver stress, and substance use concerns. She also addresses family of origin issues, communication problems, guilt, shame, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. Sessions can look different depending on needs.
Some people want short practical steps for daily stress. Others want to talk through long-standing patterns. Cheryl adapts to each person’s pace and goals while keeping the focus on clear, honest conversation.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Cheryl draws from client-centered therapy, motivational interviewing, and psychodynamic ideas to guide online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and reflecting back what someone says to help them feel understood and more able to find their own solutions. Motivational interviewing helps people clarify what they want to change and boosts internal reasons to take steps, which is useful for addictions, procrastination, or lifestyle shifts. Psychodynamic ideas look for patterns in feelings and behavior that repeat over time and can help explain why certain problems keep coming back.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Cheryl works together with each person to test methods and adjust as goals or needs change. She combines listening, short-term goal-setting, and attention to deeper patterns so the work fits what the individual wants.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a tighter schedule or use less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging work for quick check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These options can make it easier to fit regular sessions into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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