Cheri Mills, LCSW - Therapist in Utah

About Cheri

Cheri Mills is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and depression. She draws on eight years of practice to support clients as they take steps toward feeling better. Cheri uses straightforward listening and practical tools rather than jargon.

She emphasizes each person's strengths and choices when working together. Cheri believes the person seeking help knows their own story best. She offers guidance and structure while honoring that perspective.

Background and approach

Sessions are intended to build skills for coping with intense feelings and everyday pressures. The goal is clearer thinking and better day-to-day functioning. Her work includes practical strategies for handling substance use challenges, processing past hurt, and reducing anxiety.

She blends skill-based techniques and trauma-focused interventions as needed. That means clients may learn stress-management skills and, when appropriate, work through painful memories in a paced way. Cheri also helps people navigate relationship and family concerns, grief, low self-esteem, and changes in life direction.

She pays attention to patterns like codependency, communication problems, and feelings of emptiness. Her approach aims to increase self-awareness and improve coping choices. Sessions are offered in English from Utah.

Cheri uses a collaborative, respectful style that focuses on small, doable changes. She encourages people to try new strategies between sessions and to move at a pace that feels safe.

Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building on a person's strengths. In online sessions this means the therapist follows the client's lead, validates their experience, and helps set practical goals for daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and teaches specific skills to change patterns. Online CBT often involves learning exercises, tracking moods, and practicing new behaviors between sessions.

Finding the right approach is a team process. Cheri will discuss options and tailor methods to each person's needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they decide whether skills-based work, trauma processing, or a combination is the best path, and adjust as progress is made.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to use the communication style that feels most comfortable. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone offers flexibility, and chat or messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing skill practice between meetings.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

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.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Cheri help with?

She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, relationship and family issues, grief, intimacy concerns, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Additional focuses include body image, codependency, communication problems, domestic violence, and related areas.

What is her style in sessions?

Cheri uses a client-centered approach that respects each person's perspective while teaching practical skills. She combines clear tools with gentle guidance so clients can try new coping strategies between meetings.

How much experience does she have?

She holds eight years of professional experience providing therapeutic support across stress, addiction, trauma, and mood concerns. That experience informs her use of both skills training and trauma-focused methods.

What credentials and location apply to her practice?

Cheri is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, with license UT LCSW 9109671-3501 and practices from Utah. The LCSW credential indicates state licensure in clinical social work.

In which language are sessions offered?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as formats for working together. Clients can choose the format that fits their schedule and communication style.

How is cost handled for sessions?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. Pricing is therefore tied to that subscription model rather than a single fixed fee per meeting.

How do I begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling based on therapist availability. That process connects you to the subscription and session formats described above.

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Experience: 8 years
Licensed: Utah
Languages: English

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