About Cheryl
Cheryl Sessoms is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with 20 years of experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people who are coping with trauma, grief, and drops in self-esteem. Cheryl also supports people dealing with career difficulties and panic attacks.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk through what feels hard. Sessions are conversational and grounded in what the client needs that week.
Background and approach
Cheryl encourages small, practical steps that build confidence and reduce overwhelm. Her approach centers on understanding each person’s feelings and goals. She listens closely and mirrors back what she hears to help people make sense of their thoughts.
Together they set focused goals and try techniques that fit everyday life. Cheryl uses mindfulness tools to help people notice stress reactions and choose different responses. She also draws on emotionally-focused methods to help people name and process painful feelings.
Solution-focused ideas guide short-term problem solving when immediate change is needed. Starting therapy is framed as a team effort. Cheryl helps clients plan manageable next steps and checks in about progress.
Her style is straightforward, compassionate, and aimed at making daily life more livable.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Cheryl draws on client-centered therapy to follow each person's lead and focus on what matters most to them. This approach emphasizes listening, reflection, and building a trusting conversation that helps people name their feelings and priorities. She also uses mindfulness therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce racing thoughts and make stress easier to manage.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Cheryl will talk with clients about their goals and preferences, and then suggest ideas to try. She treats the process as collaborative, adjusting tools and pacing based on what helps most over time.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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