About Cheryl
Cheryl Patterson helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and life transitions. She works with concerns like trauma, intimacy issues, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, and depression.
Background and approach
Cheryl’s approach is straightforward and practical. She draws on her life experience and clinical background to offer grounded support.
Cheryl spent many years working in labor, delivery, postpartum, and nursery nursing before moving into mental health settings. She also worked in adult psychiatric care and at a residential recovery program.
Those roles shaped how she sees recovery and change in everyday life. Over time Cheryl supervised a peer-directed recovery house and supported people with substance concerns in a hands-on setting.
She brings that practical perspective to conversations about control, addiction, and communication problems. Her work also addresses family of origin issues, fertility and pregnancy-related concerns, postpartum depression, and women's issues.
Cheryl practices as a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - in Minnesota. She offers individual and couples counseling, parenting support, and coaching for career or midlife transitions.
Sessions include clear goals, real-world suggestions, and attention to spiritual values when clients want that focus. Therapy with Cheryl usually centers on building skills that fit daily life.
She uses client-centered listening, motivational techniques, narrative ideas, and solution-focused steps to help people make gradual change. Her style is warm, direct, and practical.
How Cheryl’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the client's viewpoint. The therapist follows the client's lead to build trust, which helps when facing anxiety, depression, or self-esteem struggles.Motivational Interviewing is a short-term, goal-focused method that helps people find their own reasons to change. It is often used for addiction, ambivalence about life changes, or when someone wants practical steps toward a new goal.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Cheryl will talk with each person about goals, needs, and preferences, then choose methods that feel like a good match. She checks in regularly and adapts the plan as progress and challenges appear.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let the conversation feel most like an in-person session, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, recovery, or busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English