About Cheryl
Cheryl McCabe is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who brings three years of professional counselling experience alongside decades of informal support work. She works in a gentle, interactive way and believes people carry strengths that help them face hard times. Cheryl invites clients to take the first step at their own pace and encourages questions about how therapy will work.
Her style balances calm listening with thoughtful challenge.
Background and approach
She will sit quietly when space is needed and ask probing questions when helpful. Cheryl also uses humour at times to keep sessions grounded and real. Cheryl works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, relationship worries, grief and loss, anger, motivation and self-esteem.
She is attentive to trauma and to different parts of a person's personality, and she welcomes each part of a person as relevant to the work. She sometimes uses creative methods when words are not enough, offering options for people who prefer different ways to express themselves. Cheryl describes her role as walking alongside clients as they navigate internal and external challenges.
Cheryl holds BACP registration, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She does not promise specific outcomes but draws on her experience to support people through change. Starting therapy can feel difficult and Cheryl aims to make those first steps straightforward and respectful.
How Cheryl adapts client-centred work to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance and creating a calm space where people can speak freely. It helps with anxiety, stress, relationship worries and feelings like shame or low self-esteem by giving the client control of the pace and topics in sessions.Cheryl also uses creative options when talking feels limiting, offering drawing, writing or other expressive activities adapted for online use. These methods can help when emotions are hard to put into words and are used flexibly alongside talk therapy.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Cheryl works collaboratively to test what feels useful and adjusts methods as the work progresses. She will discuss goals and preferences and help decide whether shorter check-ins, regular video sessions or messaging fits best.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for a fuller face-to-face experience, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging works well for ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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