About Cheryl
Cheryl Curtiss is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Connecticut. She has 30 years of experience helping people who are struggling with stress and anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, and family conflict. Cheryl’s approach aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried about reaching out.
She focuses on everyday problems like parenting strain, grief, anger, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Cheryl also addresses issues such as divorce and separation, blended family challenges, postpartum depression, and multicultural concerns.
Background and approach
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide conversations and practical problem solving. In sessions she creates an open, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through feelings and identify what matters most to them. Cheryl listens for patterns that influence mood and behavior and helps clients try different strategies that fit their daily life.
The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Her style is straightforward and supportive. She helps clients set realistic goals and practices new ways of handling stress, anxiety, and relationship strain.
Cheryl draws on long experience to tailor the work to each situation. Cheryl works with adults on concerns such as mood disorders, trauma and abuse, eating issues, career stress, and infidelity. Sessions are offered in English and occur through a mix of formats to suit different needs.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Cheryl draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people learn new ways to manage anxiety and stress by identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing different responses in daily life. This kind of work is useful for mood disorders, worry, and coping with life transitions.Another approach focuses on relationships and family patterns. It looks at how communication and past family dynamics affect current intimacy and conflict, and it teaches new interaction skills to reduce tension and rebuild trust. That method is often used for relationship strain, blended family issues, and separation concerns.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, consider what you’ve tried before, and suggest techniques that match your needs and preferences. Together you can adjust the plan if something isn’t working.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make sessions more flexible. Video helps keep face-to-face connection, phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while working toward clear goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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