Cherie Felzer, LMFT - Therapist in Hawaii

About Cherie

Cherie Felzer is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, and life changes. She aims to help parents and family members find practical ways to handle hard moments and reconnect with what matters. Sessions emphasize listening, calm presence, and simple skills to ease overwhelm at home.

Cherie brings 11 years of clinical experience and a long personal history with movement and somatic practices.

Background and approach

She trained in somatic counseling psychology and holds a Hawaii LMFT license (HI LMFT MFT-688) as well as a California LMFT license (CA LMFT 93350). Her background includes work with people facing grief, addiction, cancer, hospice and end-of-life issues, and compassion fatigue. In appointments she combines attachment-based ideas with client-centered listening and mindfulness tools.

That means she pays attention to how relationships shape feelings, offers a steady nonjudgmental presence, and teaches simple practices to calm the body and mind. These tools are used practically to address parenting challenges, relationship strain, and feelings of isolation or low self-worth. Her style draws on movement, body awareness, and lived experience.

Cherie often invites clients to notice physical sensations and small shifts in posture or breath as part of change. She also helps people translate those shifts into everyday parenting choices and clearer communication. People working with her can expect a collaborative tone.

Cherie sees therapy as a shared process of finding what helps, reading the map together, and taking manageable steps forward.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how close relationships shape emotions and behavior. Online sessions can use conversation and reflective exercises to identify patterns in family or parenting relationships and practice new responses at home.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple skills to bring attention to the present moment, such as breathing and short awareness practices. These techniques can be guided over video or phone to help reduce reactivity and support clearer parenting choices during stressful moments.

Finding the right approach is something the therapist will do together with each client. Cherie listens to your goals, preferences, and daily life and then suggests practices or experiments that fit. That collaborative process helps tailor attachment work or mindfulness practices to your family situation.

Online sessions offer flexibility for busy families. Video calls let you connect face to face without travel, phone sessions remove the need for cameras, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins or homework support. These options make it easier to practice new skills between sessions and to fit therapy into a parenting schedule.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.

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.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she address?

Cherie works with stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, parenting and family issues, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addiction, compassion fatigue, and related life changes.

What is her general approach in sessions?

She blends attachment-based ideas, client-centered listening, mindfulness, and somatic techniques to help clients notice bodily signals and practical patterns that affect daily life.

How long has she practiced?

She brings 11 years of professional clinical experience informed by long-term personal practice in movement and somatic work.

Where is she licensed and based?

She is licensed as a marriage and family therapist in Hawaii and California with HI LMFT MFT-688 and CA LMFT 93350, and is located in Hawaii.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can international clients work with her?

International clients are not currently accepted.

What formats are available for sessions?

Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and routines.

How does cost and scheduling work?

Cost varies by location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time; to begin, select Start Therapy, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Self esteem
Career difficulties

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 11 years
Licensed: California, Hawaii
Languages: English

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