About Cheryl
Cheryl Crusse is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience in Florida. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and major life changes. Her style is calm and direct, aimed at helping someone take manageable steps forward.
She uses practical tools to reduce intense emotions and improve day-to-day functioning. Sessions often focus on clearer communication, coping strategies for mood symptoms, and navigating transitions like retirement or career change.
Background and approach
Cheryl also works with people dealing with relationship strain, intimacy concerns, and caregiving fatigue. Cheryl draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, dialectical behavior strategies, and mindfulness. That mix helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviors, and build tolerance for difficult feelings.
Motivational interviewing is used when someone wants to find personal reasons to change. Her work often emphasizes real-world skills: managing stress, setting boundaries, improving sleep routines, and restoring a sense of purpose. She explains steps in straightforward language and practices alongside clients rather than lecturing.
The goal is to leave each session with at least one thing to try between meetings. Cheryl has long experience supporting older adults and veterans and addresses aging and geriatric concerns when relevant. She can help with mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, seasonal mood changes, and issues around self-esteem or life purpose.
Sessions are conducted in English and tailored to each person’s goals.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Cheryl commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to address anxiety and mood concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice painful feelings without getting stuck and then choose actions that match their values.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness techniques to build emotion regulation and present-moment awareness. DBT skills teach practical ways to tolerate intense emotions and improve interpersonal effectiveness, while mindfulness practices support steadying attention and reducing reactivity.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try approaches that fit, and adjust based on what helps. That shared decision-making helps match methods to the problem at hand.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexible options for care. Video is useful for longer sessions and skill work, phone can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth, and chat or text can support brief check-ins and rehearsal of skills between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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