About Cheryl
Cheryl Tan-Bell is a counsellor with 15 years' experience based in Australia. She focuses on anxiety alongside relationship strain, grief, trauma and major life changes. Cheryl aims to make the first step less daunting by offering calm, steady support and practical ways to cope.
Cheryl uses an attachment-based, trauma-informed and client-centred approach. Sessions are built around listening carefully to what matters most to each person. She helps people name their feelings, spot patterns in their relationships, and practise small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Her work often includes helping people recover from abuse, manage anger, or cope with caregiver stress and compassion fatigue. Cheryl also supports people dealing with career pressure, identity questions such as gender dysphoria and LGBT matters, and sensitivity around kink, BDSM and alternative sexual culture.
Cheryl draws on cognitive behavioural tools when people need clear strategies for anxiety, low mood or unhelpful thoughts. She also uses emotionally-focused and Gottman-informed ideas when relationship dynamics are the main concern. The aim is to join practical techniques with a warm, respectful listening style.
Sessions encourage honest conversation about attachment wounds, abandonment and family-of-origin problems. Cheryl helps people sort through blended family issues, separation or divorce effects, and ongoing communication problems. The work is collaborative and paced to each person's needs and goals.
Evidence-informed approaches for online support
Cheryl draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationship patterns shape current worries. This helps when anxiety or trust issues show up in close relationships. She also uses client-centred methods that prioritise the person's experience, offering a listening stance that helps people feel heard and understood. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to teach concrete skills for managing anxious thoughts, changing avoidance, and building new habits.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Cheryl will discuss different methods with each person and try ways that match their goals and preferences. Decisions about which tools to use are made together, so therapy stays relevant to the issues a person brings.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be a simpler option if bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging suit brief check-ins, written reflection or flexible scheduling. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or busy days and support ongoing progress without long travel times.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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