- Client-centered approach
- Practical coping tools
- Experience with trauma
About Cheryl
Cheryl Youngblood, LCSW, focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem, trauma, addiction, and life transitions. She brings a calm, compassionate presence to sessions and aims to help people find practical tools for coping and healing.
Cheryl uses a client-centered approach that emphasizes listening and working from each person’s strengths. She blends methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and emotionally-focused therapy with motivational interviewing and narrative techniques. Sessions often include grounding exercises such as guided imagery, breathing work, and simple mindfulness practices.
Her experience includes leadership in foster and adoption services and many years supporting people affected by trauma, domestic violence, and self-injurious behaviors. Cheryl also describes herself as gerontology informed and attentive to concerns that can come with aging, caregiving, and major life transitions.
In sessions she focuses on what is happening now and on practical steps people can try between meetings. She aims to help clients build routines that reduce overwhelm, improve sleep, and increase emotional regulation. Cheryl emphasizes empathy, respect for people’s life experience, and collaboration in choosing what to try next.
Cheryl holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and has practiced for 12 years in California. People who choose her work with someone who favors straightforward talk, coping strategies, and short skills practice alongside deeper reflection and story work.
Cheryl uses a client-centered approach that emphasizes listening and working from each person’s strengths. She blends methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and emotionally-focused therapy with motivational interviewing and narrative techniques. Sessions often include grounding exercises such as guided imagery, breathing work, and simple mindfulness practices.
Her experience includes leadership in foster and adoption services and many years supporting people affected by trauma, domestic violence, and self-injurious behaviors. Cheryl also describes herself as gerontology informed and attentive to concerns that can come with aging, caregiving, and major life transitions.
In sessions she focuses on what is happening now and on practical steps people can try between meetings. She aims to help clients build routines that reduce overwhelm, improve sleep, and increase emotional regulation. Cheryl emphasizes empathy, respect for people’s life experience, and collaboration in choosing what to try next.
Cheryl holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential and has practiced for 12 years in California. People who choose her work with someone who favors straightforward talk, coping strategies, and short skills practice alongside deeper reflection and story work.