Cheri Atkinson
Practical support for parenting and life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cheri
Cheri Atkinson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with four decades of experience helping people through hard times. She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, grief, and parenting challenges. Cheri also supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiver strain, major life changes, and relationship or communication problems.
Her style is straightforward and kind. She aims to make conversations easy to follow and to give practical tools for handling strong emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions often include learning new coping skills, talking through what feels overwhelming, and finding small steps forward. Cheri has worked with both children and adults who face medical, physical, or developmental challenges after accidents or illness. She pays attention to the whole situation - medical, emotional, and social - so plans feel realistic and useful at home.
She creates a calm space where people can speak without feeling judged. Cheri helps clients identify patterns that cause distress and practices ways to change them. Her work is guided by proven therapeutic techniques tailored to each person’s needs.
Located in California, Cheri holds the LCSW credential - Licensed Clinical Social Worker. With many years in the field, she brings steady experience and a patient approach to supporting life changes and healing.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used to guide sessions in accessible ways. One common approach focuses on teaching practical coping skills for stress and panic - clients learn short exercises and step-by-step strategies to manage symptoms when they arise. Another approach addresses mood and grief by helping people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new ways of responding to difficult feelings, which can reduce overwhelm and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cheri approaches therapy collaboratively, listening to a client’s needs, goals, and preferences before deciding which techniques to use. She adjusts methods over time so they fit the person and the situation rather than following one fixed plan.
Online formats used include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options add flexibility for busy families, caregivers, and people managing medical issues, since sessions can fit around appointments and caregiving duties. Remote sessions also make it easier to keep continuity when life changes make in-person visits difficult, while still allowing regular check-ins and skill practice between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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