Cheri Goodwin
Compassionate, practical therapy for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cheri
Cheri Goodwin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado who focuses on practical help for common struggles. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, and parenting concerns. Her tone is direct and matter-of-fact, aiming to make therapy feel doable for a worried parent reading on a phone.
Sessions tend to focus on what is happening now and what can change next.
Background and approach
She uses clear tools rather than long lectures. Many people come to work on coping skills, managing overwhelming feelings, or reducing habits that cause harm. Cheri draws on about 20 years of experience.
She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with mindfulness and motivational methods. Narrative therapy ideas are used when reframing a person’s story will help them move forward. Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented.
Clients can expect concrete strategies, short-term goals, and attention to values and meaning when appropriate. Progress is measured by what improves in daily life rather than by technical language. Sessions are offered in English and delivered remotely using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Cheri holds Colorado LPC number LPC.0011698 and practices with attention to each person’s needs and circumstances.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and when feeling stuck by past events. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical steps to change patterns. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and habit change. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus; it pairs well with ACT and CBT for stress and emotion regulation.Choosing an approach is part of the work. Cheri treats the selection as a conversation. She will review goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan matches their needs and preferences.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home. Phone sessions offer flexibility when video is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging provide short, timely check-ins and tools between meetings. These options help people use therapy consistently while balancing family and other responsibilities.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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