About Cheryl
Dr. Cheryl Mims is a licensed clinical social worker in California with four decades of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress while navigating major life changes.
Her approach aims to make the first step feel less overwhelming and more manageable. She creates a calm space where clients can talk about grief, depression, bipolar mood concerns, and trauma without feeling judged. Sessions emphasize clear, practical steps clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Conversations are direct and compassionate, with attention to emotions and everyday routines. Dr. Mims also supports people dealing with relationship strain, communication problems, intimacy concerns, and infidelity.
She addresses panic attacks, social anxiety, ADHD-related challenges, and other mood disorders with techniques that target thoughts and behavior. Her work includes helping people rebuild self-esteem and cope after major losses. Her methods draw on client-centered care, cognitive behavioral tools, and emotionally focused work to help clients understand patterns and try new ways of relating.
The focus stays on what a person wants to change right now and on small, realistic goals. Sessions keep to practical steps and straightforward listening. Overall, Dr.
Mims offers steady guidance and long experience for people feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxious thoughts. She partners with clients to clarify goals, reduce distressing symptoms, and find strategies that fit day-to-day life.
Approaches used online and how they help
Client-centered work centers the person and their goals, with the therapist reflecting concerns and helping people name what matters most. This approach is helpful for anxiety and for making sense of grief or relationship strain.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to reduce anxious or depressive symptoms. It is practical for panic attacks, social anxiety, and mood regulation tasks.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, looks at emotions in relationships and helps people change patterns that block closeness or create conflict. This can be useful for intimacy issues and communication problems.
Finding the right approach is part of care. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person's goals and preferences. That choice can change over time as needs evolve and progress is reviewed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone calls work well when a quieter or lower-bandwidth option is needed. Live chat and messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, more flexible touchpoints. These formats make it easier to schedule consistent sessions around work, school, and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Bipolar disorder
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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