About Cheryl
Cheryl McNeil is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 27 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, or struggles with addiction. Her first priority is listening and understanding each person’s situation before planning next steps.
Her style is flexible and practical. She adapts sessions to what a person needs that week. Sometimes that means coaching through a specific problem.
Background and approach
Other times it means sitting with strong feelings and naming them. She emphasizes acceptance of current circumstances alongside small, manageable changes. Cheryl uses a range of approaches that match a person’s goals.
She blends acceptance-based methods with emotion-focused work and client-centered support. She may also use motivational techniques or brief solution-focused strategies to build motivation and quick coping skills. She has worked in community mental health, with vocational programs, and in personal settings.
That background shaped a straightforward way of working that focuses on concrete steps as well as emotional healing. Cheryl aims to help people build skills they can use between sessions. People come to her for many concerns besides anxiety and depression.
These include family and relationship stress, self-esteem and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, grief, workplace problems, mood concerns, and coping with life changes. She also addresses blended family matters, codependency, infidelity, and forgiveness as part of broader emotional work.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Cheryl commonly blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match what matters most. It can help with anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on identifying and naming emotions and the patterns they create in relationships, which is useful for improving connection and handling conflict.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Cheryl will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then try methods that fit those aims. She adjusts pacing and techniques over time so the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use approaches that match each person's needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
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