About Cheryl
Cheryl Hopkins is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 40 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship problems, grief, parenting concerns, and low self-esteem. She works with individuals who are facing life transitions, painful losses, and communication struggles. Cheryl aims to make the first step easier by offering steady support and practical ways forward.
Her approach is straightforward and respectful. She listens first, then tailors conversations and plans to each person’s situation.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real-life tools you can use between meetings, like strategies for handling anxious thoughts or improving difficult conversations. Cheryl draws from a few established approaches including acceptance and commitment techniques, cognitive behavioral methods, and emotion-focused work. Those tools help people notice unhelpful patterns, learn new skills, and rebuild connection with important values.
She adapts methods to fit what each person needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Over her career she has supported people with adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, caregiver stress, aging and geriatric matters, addiction and recovery challenges, and the complex fallout of infidelity or divorce. She also helps with shame, guilt, isolation, and jealousy.
Cheryl practices in California as an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Conversations are held in English and can be scheduled in several online formats. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and encouragement while helping people move toward a more fulfilling life.
Approach and access for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and reconnect with what matters most in life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and learning concrete skills to change them. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is useful when relationship patterns and strong emotions need to be understood and shifted toward greater connection.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cheryl will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying a path, checking how it feels, and changing course if something does not fit.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when a longer conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter session is helpful. Live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing support between longer meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep consistent momentum toward change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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