About Cheryl
Cheryl Pacione is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 25 years of clinical work in New York. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by listening closely and offering practical next steps. Cheryl aims to build trust quickly so people can try new ways of coping and move toward clearer goals.
Her background includes long experience supporting people with anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and ADHD. She also helps with career concerns, grief, intimacy issues, sleep problems, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Cheryl has worked with LGBTQ people and brings awareness of diverse relationship styles into sessions. Cheryl blends straightforward conversation with therapeutic methods that emphasize the person in front of her. She uses client-centered work to follow what matters most to each person.
Narrative and mindfulness tools help people notice patterns and try small experiments between sessions. Practical problem solving is part of her approach. Cheryl uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques to set short-term goals.
She can also support employment-related concerns, drawing on her vocational counseling experience and knowledge of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Sessions typically combine scheduled live meetings with message-based check-ins when useful. Cheryl works weekdays and some weekend hours in the Eastern Time zone.
She invites people to take the first step when they are ready to explore a clearer path forward.
How Cheryl's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work means the conversation starts with what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client's lead, listens deeply, and helps clarify goals or concerns in everyday terms. This approach is useful for people who want a space to be heard and understood.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple ways to notice thoughts, bodily tension, and emotional reactions. These short practices help reduce rumination and improve focus, which can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and ADHD-related difficulties. Narrative therapy invites people to tell their story and then look for moments they want to change, useful when old patterns feel fixed.
Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods together, and adjust based on what helps. Clients are invited to give feedback so sessions are tailored to their needs and preferences.
Online work is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and styles. Video sessions allow a fuller conversation, phone sessions require less bandwidth, and messaging can be used for brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines while keeping a steady path toward goals.
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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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