About Cheryl
Cheryl Tredway is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with ten years of experience based in Kansas. She helps people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, anger, and relationship concerns. Her style is direct and down-to-earth, and she values using a bit of humor when it feels appropriate.
Cheryl encourages clients to set clear goals and to take practical steps toward them. Cheryl trained at Emporia State University, where she completed a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Counseling.
Background and approach
She has worked with a wide range of people, including university students, active duty military and veterans, and those coping with addiction and trauma. This background informs how she tailors sessions to each person’s needs. In sessions she focuses on what matters most to the client.
Cheryl uses a mix of approaches that include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior techniques, EMDR for trauma, and elements of the Gottman Method for relationship concerns. She explains methods simply and helps people try small, practical steps between sessions. Clients can expect straightforward conversation, skill-building, and collaborative problem solving.
Cheryl aims to help people identify roadblocks and build new habits that reduce distress. She emphasizes strengths while addressing the patterns that keep problems in place. When someone is ready to begin, Cheryl guides them through a clear first step of matching and scheduling.
She supports people through life changes, grief, parenting strain, career transitions, and other challenges using a pragmatic, compassionate approach.
How Cheryl uses evidence-based approaches online
Client-Centered Therapy puts the client's priorities first and emphasizes listening, empathy, and collaboration to help people identify what they want to change. It is useful for general life stress, relationship concerns, and building coping strength.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It often involves short exercises and homework to practice new skills between sessions and can help with anxiety, depression, and anger management.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used for processing traumatic memories and reducing their hold on daily life. It is applied step by step and can be helpful for people struggling with trauma and abuse history.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Cheryl discusses options with each person and helps choose methods that fit the client's goals, comfort level, and pace. The plan can change as progress is made, and decisions are made collaboratively.
Online therapy 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 be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, skill coaching, and staying connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, school, or caregiving demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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