Cheryl Youngblood

Cheryl Youngblood, LCSW, supports people facing stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and life changes. She helps with trauma and abuse, addiction, sleep problems, self-esteem, ADHD, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Cheryl also offers coaching around career questions and compassion fatigue. She lists work with LGBT issues and many family-related challenges such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, and attachment concerns.

Cheryl brings 12 years as a licensed clinical social worker in California. She draws on practical, down-to-earth methods and focuses on the here and now. Sessions are conversational and centered on the person's own goals and strengths. Cheryl uses mindfulness tools like breathing, guided imagery, tapping, and meditation when helpful.

Her style is rooted in client-centered care. That means the person sets the pace while Cheryl offers ideas, coping skills, and gentle challenge. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help shift unhelpful thoughts and emotionally focused ideas to look at relationship patterns. Motivational interviewing and narrative work may be added to support change and reframe difficult stories.

Cheryl notes experience supporting people handling caregiving stress and the strain of major life transitions. She describes an approach that honors lived experience and focuses on practical strategies to reduce overwhelm. The aim is calmer days, clearer decisions, and stronger coping skills.

To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and location is California.

How Cheryl’s approaches work in online therapy

Cheryl uses client-centered therapy to keep sessions focused on the person's priorities. That means conversations follow what matters to the client while the therapist reflects, asks questions, and suggests next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to spot and change thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety, anger, or low mood. CBT tools are practical and often include short exercises between sessions to test new ways of thinking.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Cheryl will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, strengths, and comfort level. She may blend client-centered listening with CBT exercises or add emotionally focused ideas when relationship patterns come up. The plan can shift as progress is made.

Confirm the available session options before booking, since formats were not specified in the profile. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It can also help people keep therapy consistent during life transitions and caregiving duties. Licensed professionals and therapists often use these practical benefits to help people maintain regular momentum toward their goals.