About Cheryl
Cheryl Youngblood is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in California who focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions. She frames sessions around practical tools and calm, steady support. Cheryl writes simply and listens closely to understand what is most pressing for each person.
Cheryl draws on 12 years of clinical experience to help people manage trauma, addictions, grief, and caregiver strain. She uses plain techniques like breathing exercises, guided imagery, and mindfulness to reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize small, doable steps that fit into everyday life. Her style is client-centered and collaborative. She helps clients name what matters, try short exercises in session, and adjust plans between meetings.
Cheryl blends approaches such as cognitive behavioral and narrative methods to change unhelpful patterns and reframe difficult stories. Because she has worked with adoption and foster care systems, Cheryl understands attachment and abandonment themes. She also supports people facing divorce, infidelity, and family-of-origin conflicts.
That background informs how she approaches safety, trust, and rebuilding relationships one step at a time. Cheryl aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can practice new skills. She offers motivational prompts and solution-focused ideas to help people move forward.
The work is practical, paced to each person, and focused on reducing distress day to day.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the client. The therapist follows the client's lead, helps clarify goals, and supports small steps toward change. This approach is useful for people who want to feel heard and build confidence at their own pace.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions use practical exercises and simple experiments to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT often helps with anxiety, sleep problems, and anger by teaching concrete skills to test new ways of reacting.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name strong feelings and the patterns that keep them stuck. It can be helpful for addressing intimacy-related issues, attachment concerns, and emotional cycles that increase distress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cheryl will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat or messaging is useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when a shorter, more frequent touchpoint helps maintain progress. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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