About Cheryl
Cheryl Pacione is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She practices from New York and brings a steady, practical style to sessions. Cheryl focuses on clear goals and small steps people can take between meetings.
She uses a mix of client-centered listening and solution-focused work to identify what matters most to each person. Cheryl also draws on mindfulness and narrative techniques to help people notice unhelpful patterns and tell different stories about their lives.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and geared toward tangible change. Cheryl has worked with many different concerns including trauma and abuse, addiction, anger, and issues around intimacy and identity. She also supports people facing career stress, caregiver burnout, chronic health challenges, and the complex effects of adoption or abandonment.
Her experience includes work with neurodiversity and with people exploring alternative sexual cultures. Sessions often combine short message-based check-ins with regular live meetings by video or phone. Cheryl aims to create a calm, focused space where clients can try new strategies and build skills that fit their daily routines.
She helps clients set achievable steps and measure progress over time. People who want goal-oriented support and practical tools tend to do well with her approach. Cheryl invites prospective clients to consider small, steady changes and to use therapy as a place for planning next steps and solving immediate problems.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Cheryl often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening closely and following each person's priorities so sessions reflect real-life needs. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes plans that match their values and goals.She also brings mindfulness therapy into sessions, teaching simple attention practices that reduce reactivity and help with stress, anxiety, and sleep problems. These practices are brief and can be used between meetings to steady mood and focus.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Cheryl will talk with clients about their goals and try methods that fit the person's preferences and daily life. She adjusts plans over time based on what helps and what feels realistic.
Online work can make therapy easier to fit into a busy schedule. Video calls let people use face-to-face time for deeper conversation, while phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option. Live chat and text-based messaging support short check-ins, homework, and quick coaching between sessions. These formats let clients combine regular live meetings with message-based contact for steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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