About Cheryl
Cheryl Pacione is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 25 years of clinical experience. She helps people who feel stuck by focusing on practical steps and clearer choices. Cheryl aims to build trust quickly so people can talk through what matters most and begin making changes.
She uses several therapy approaches that fit different needs. Sessions often look at long-standing patterns and beliefs that get in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
Cheryl combines listening with goal-focused work to find what moves a person forward. Her background includes work in New York and involvement on a state committee for inclusion and diversity. She also has experience with vocational counseling and knowledge of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which informs how she supports people facing work-related concerns.
Cheryl offers help for a broad range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, addictions, grief, and relationship struggles. She also addresses concerns like sleep problems, parenting stress, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. Her practice includes attention to attachment issues, ADHD, and complexities such as co-morbidity.
In sessions she blends client-centered listening with mindfulness and narrative techniques. That mix lets people reflect on their story while learning small, practical steps for change. The result is a straightforward, collaborative process focused on what a person wants to change next.
How Cheryl Uses Talk, Story, and Mindfulness Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on attentive, nonjudgmental listening. The therapist follows the person's lead to better understand their goals and feelings, which helps when someone wants to clarify what matters next. Existential Therapy looks at choices and meaning in life and can help when people face big transitions or questions about purpose. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and manage stress, which can be useful for anxiety, sleep trouble, and anger.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Cheryl will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then shape sessions together. That collaborative planning helps decide whether to emphasize listening, practical solutions, mindfulness exercises, or narrative work about life events.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face and use visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing reflections between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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