About Cheryl
Dr. Cheryl Mansfield is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with two decades of experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people manage addictions, depression, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and anger.
She aims to make sessions calm and straightforward so people can talk about what matters most. Her approach is practical and flexible. She listens first and then helps people notice how stress shows up in day-to-day life.
Background and approach
From there she works with clients to build coping skills and strategies that feel manageable. The work often mixes short-term problem-solving with practices that shift habits over time. Dr.
Mansfield has worked in outpatient clinics, hospitals, and military settings, so she knows many kinds of stressors and life changes. She leans on proven methods such as cognitive-behavioral techniques, client-centered methods, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused work. Those tools are chosen to match each person’s needs rather than used one-size-fits-all.
She also supports people dealing with family and caregiving strains, adoption and foster care topics, aging concerns, blended family and communication problems, and substance issues. Compassion fatigue, first responder stress, and struggles with guilt or shame are additional areas she addresses. Sessions are offered in English and Dr.
Mansfield accepts international clients. She uses a strengths-based style and aims to create a warm, welcoming space where people can speak openly and leave with concrete steps to feel better.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person with empathy and respect. Online sessions using this approach let clients set the pace while the therapist reflects feelings and priorities to help them feel heard and understood.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets thoughts and behaviors that maintain anxiety and stress. In online sessions clients learn specific skills, try small experiments between meetings, and track progress to reduce symptoms and change daily routines.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These techniques work well in short check-ins or guided exercises during video or phone sessions and can be practiced between contacts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep consistent contact when life gets busy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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