About Sherilyn
Sherilyn Cho is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Hawaii. She offers a warm, practical approach focused on helping people manage stress, anxiety, ADHD, and changes in everyday life. Sherilyn talks with clients in plain language and centers their strengths while working toward realistic goals.
She draws on client-centered methods to listen first and follow each person’s lead. That starts with understanding what feels hardest right now, then choosing simple strategies to use between sessions.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with workable alternatives. Her background includes six years of clinical experience in youth and community settings where she provided in-home support and skills training in schools. That work shaped how she breaks bigger problems into smaller steps and teaches practical skills for day-to-day life.
Sherilyn focuses on things like parenting stress, family conflict, substance use concerns, grief, and career worries. In sessions she mixes mindfulness exercises and motivational interviewing to build motivation and reduce reactivity. Those approaches help with impulsivity, shame, low self-esteem, and coping after trauma.
She aims to make therapy straightforward and usable between appointments. Sherilyn describes therapy as a partnership. She helps people track small wins, adjust methods that aren’t working, and strengthen what’s already going well.
The emphasis is on practical progress and clearer choices for moving forward.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy is about listening first and shaping sessions around what matters most to the client. It helps people who need support sorting priorities, feeling heard, and building confidence to try new behaviors. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral changes. It is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and changing patterns that get in the way of daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sherilyn will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That means trying strategies together, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation time. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging support ongoing problem-solving and brief, frequent contact between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep work moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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