About Cheryl
Cheryl McDonald-Tuckwell is a UK-based counsellor with 16 years of professional experience. She offers weekly online sessions by video, telephone, chat, or text and works with people who are facing stress, anxiety and life transitions. Cheryl aims to provide a non-judgemental space where clients can be heard and understood.
She adapts each session to the person in front of her, following the pace and topics the client brings. Cheryl uses practical, conversation-led methods to help people make sense of difficult feelings and to set clearer personal boundaries.
Background and approach
She also draws on coaching techniques when someone wants help with direction or goal-setting. Cheryl has worked in a range of settings including GP practice, schools, women’s services and bereavement support. That background means she is used to supporting people with grief, loss, trauma, parenting concerns and issues that affect everyday functioning like eating and sleeping difficulties.
She also brings experience supporting people through relationship and attachment issues, diversion of life roles, ADHD and neurodivergence, and matters relating to LGBT identity. Cheryl pays attention to sensory and communication needs when working with neurodivergent clients online. Sessions are offered weekly and are tailored to what each person needs that week.
The first steps are simple: select Start Therapy, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to her availability. Fees vary with location and the service uses a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How Cheryl uses talking therapies online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them, and then pick small actions that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and teaches practical steps to change them, which can be useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and creating a respectful space so clients can explore what matters to them and find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cheryl discusses different methods with each person and chooses techniques based on the client’s goals and preferences. She treats the choice as collaborative and will adapt the plan as needs change over time.
Online therapy with Cheryl is offered by video call, telephone, live chat or text messaging, which makes it easier to fit sessions around school, work or caregiving. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat or messaging can suit short check-ins and clients who prefer writing. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to attend alongside daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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