About Cheryl
Cheryl Marrow is a licensed counselor and marriage and family therapist with 25 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing addiction, relationship strains, stress, anxiety, and big life changes.
Background and approach
Her style is straightforward and warm, aimed at helping someone feel steadier and more in control day to day. Cheryl blends practical tools with time to talk.
She uses client-centered methods to follow what matters to the person in the room. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking, and emotion-focused work to address hurt and connection issues.
Her background includes long experience working with communication problems, intimacy issues, and the effects of family of origin patterns. She has supported people through divorce and separation, blended family challenges, and recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.
Cheryl also pays attention to concerns that show up around commitment, control, and forgiveness. Cheryl takes a plainspoken approach to therapy.
Sessions often include skill practice, clearer ways to talk about needs, and steps to reduce overwhelming emotions. She helps people build coping strategies that fit their daily routines.
Based in the District of Columbia, she holds LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) and LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) credentials. She offers sessions in English and works with international clients when scheduling allows.
For many, the work is focused on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Cheryl uses client-centered therapy to keep the focus on the person’s goals and values, creating sessions that follow what matters most to the individual. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people spot and change thought patterns that fuel anxiety, anger, or addictive behaviors, and offers concrete steps to try between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy brings skills for regulating intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Cheryl collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That process can change over time as progress is made or new challenges appear.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are good for longer sessions and visual connection, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets someone share thoughts between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and different time zones, including international clients.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia
- Languages
- English