About Cheryl
Cheryl Loomis is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate life transitions. Cheryl offers straightforward, compassionate support and tailors guidance to each person she sees.
She helps people who are dealing with relationship strain, career challenges, and the ups and downs that come with major life changes. Attention and focus challenges, including ADHD, are also part of her background.
Background and approach
She approaches each situation with respect and sensitivity. Cheryl adapts conversations and plans to fit a person’s needs, using evidence-based therapeutic techniques. She spends time listening and then works with clients to choose practical steps that can be tried between sessions.
The aim is steady progress rather than one-size-fits-all solutions. Over nearly two decades of practice she has supported clients through grief, changes in family roles, and work-related stress. She also addresses issues like guilt, shame, communication problems, and caregiver stress.
These topics often come up when people are trying to rebuild balance in daily life. Cheryl holds LCSW credentials in multiple states and practices in Washington. She speaks English and offers sessions using video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Starting therapy involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session that fits the client’s timing.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Cheryl uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address stress, anxiety, and relationship concerns. One common approach focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that contribute to anxiety and testing small, practical changes to reduce distress. This helps people gain tools they can use in daily life to feel less overwhelmed.Another approach emphasizes improving communication and emotional connection in relationships. It teaches skills for clearer listening, expressing needs, and rebuilding trust after conflict. These methods are helpful when relationship strain or repeated arguments are making life harder.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Cheryl will work collaboratively to decide which techniques match a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts methods over time based on what is working and what isn’t, so clients help shape their plan of care.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation while phone calls can be useful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can fit brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or scheduling on a busy day. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, Maine
- Languages
- English
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