About Cheryl
Cheryl Smart is a counsellor in the United Kingdom who blends somatic awareness with talk-based work. She has four years of experience offering support in schools, healthcare settings and online. Cheryl uses plain language and steady pacing to help people feel heard and understood.
She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression and mood concerns including bipolar. She also helps with trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem and motivation. Practical everyday problems such as sleep, eating, career stress and parenting strain are part of her work too.
Background and approach
Cheryl draws on approaches that include somatic techniques, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioural methods. Sessions explore thoughts, feelings and bodily responses so people can notice patterns and try new ways of coping. The work is collaborative and paced to each persons needs.
Clients can expect conversations that balance reflection with simple strategies. Cheryl aims to make ideas easy to use between sessions. She adapts sessions to the practical demands of life and focuses on small, manageable changes.
Cheryl is credentialed NCPS, which is shown as NCPS. She works in English and is available to clients in different countries. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and arrange sessions around the therapists schedule.
How somatic and structured approaches work online
Somatic-informed work brings attention to the bodys signals and links them to emotions and thoughts; this can help with stress, anxiety and trauma by offering simple practices to notice and regulate sensations. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and practical steps, helping people accept difficult feelings while acting on what matters to them. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thought patterns and builds small, practical changes to reduce symptoms and improve daily routines.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with the client to choose methods that fit their needs, goals and preferences. Sessions begin with what matters most to the person and adjust as progress is made, so the plan can change over time.
Online work through video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging offers flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls let people use visual cues, phone sessions suit those on the move, and messaging can support short check-ins or ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping the focus on practical steps and building coping skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English