About Cheryl
Cheryl Johnson Ransaw is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She supports those dealing with relationship struggles, family conflict, and the strain of life transitions. Cheryl also offers guidance for parenting concerns, self-esteem challenges, career stress, and depression.
She begins by listening to each person's story and looking for strengths to build on. Cheryl treats clients as the experts on their own lives and works alongside them to find practical ways forward.
Background and approach
Sessions are framed around real-life goals and small steps that can fit into a busy schedule. Her background includes three decades working in varied clinical settings in Georgia. That experience informs an approach that is flexible and grounded in what works for each individual.
Cheryl often helps clients sort priorities, set boundaries, and develop coping skills for day-to-day challenges. She has particular familiarity with issues that come with aging and with concerns that commonly affect young adults. Those who are juggling career changes or parenting pressures may find her straightforward style useful for organizing next steps.
Cheryl encourages people to treat the first session as a chance to see how she works and whether her approach feels like a fit. She recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and aims to make the process as clear and manageable as possible.
Practical approaches for online therapy and coping
Cheryl uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on real-life change. One common approach helps clients learn step-by-step coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breathing exercises, activity planning, and ways to manage worry. These tools are useful for everyday situations and for reducing overwhelming feelings.A second approach emphasizes problem-solving and goal setting to address relationship and life-change issues. This involves breaking larger problems into smaller tasks, practicing new communication habits, and tracking progress over time. It can help when people are deciding on career moves, parenting choices, or next steps after a major life change.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cheryl collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals and comfort level. She invites feedback and adjusts techniques so sessions stay practical and relevant to what matters most to the client.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video visits allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to stay connected while working toward change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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