About Cherrise
Cherrise Smith is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, family concerns, and low self-esteem. She focuses on practical steps people can use day to day. Her tone is straightforward and supportive.
Cherrise uses a relational and collaborative style in sessions. She works with clients to understand how past experiences affect current feelings and behaviors. Conversations are direct and geared toward building skills for emotion regulation, communication, and coping.
Background and approach
She has spent eight years supporting people through trauma, mood concerns, panic, and life transitions. Cherrise also addresses issues like attachment and abandonment, body image, guilt and shame, and separation or divorce. Sessions aim to help clients notice patterns and try new ways of responding.
Cherrise adapts her approach to the person in front of her. She draws from multiple evidence-based therapeutic techniques and chooses tools that match each person's goals. The work often includes practice between sessions so changes carry into daily life.
Clients meet with Cherrise for focused skill building and honest conversation. She describes the therapy process as a partnership where progress is measured in clearer thinking, stronger communication, and more manageable emotions.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Cherrise uses a mix of evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on relationships and skills. One common approach centers on understanding how past relationships affect current feelings and behavior, which helps with attachment issues, abandonment concerns, and patterns that affect relationships. Another approach emphasizes practical skill building for emotion regulation and coping, such as breathing, grounding, and step-by-step plans to manage panic and anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking in on what's helpful, and adjusting the plan together.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video lets people read facial expressions and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions work well when video is difficult or bandwidth is low. Live chat and texting are useful for quick check-ins, shorter supports, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options provide flexibility so people can engage in therapy in a way that fits their schedule and comfort.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English