Dr. Cheryl Mansfield
Experienced clinician for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LICSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cheryl
Dr. Cheryl Mansfield is a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and parenting challenges. She brings 20 years of experience to sessions and focuses on practical skills that reduce day-to-day pain.
Her approach aims to help clients notice how stress affects them and learn new ways to cope. Dr. Mansfield uses techniques that build on strengths and encourage steady progress.
She offers straightforward, goal-oriented work that draws on a mix of methods.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy creates space to be heard and understood. Solution-Focused techniques help set clear small goals and track progress.
Dr. Mansfield has worked in outpatient clinics, hospitals, and military settings over two decades. That varied background shapes a practical, flexible style in sessions.
She aims for interventions that feel useful in daily life. Sessions tend to focus on concrete skills such as coping strategies, communication tools, and problem-solving steps. She emphasizes strengths and builds on what already works for each person.
Conversations are warm but directed toward change. People who seek help often bring issues like family stress, relationship strain, trauma, caregiver burnout, or substance concerns. Dr.
Mansfield combines evidence-based practices to offer efficient, long-term relief. Her goal is to help clients leave therapy with clearer tools and improved coping. She works in English and is licensed as LICSW and LCSW in Virginia.
The practice accommodates different formats so sessions can fit into a busy life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust so people can speak openly about what matters most. It helps when someone needs acceptance and support while working through difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then use the methods that fit best. That collaborative process can shift over time as needs change.
Online therapy makes those approaches easier to access. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is hard. Phone sessions and live chat provide flexible options for busy days. Text-based messaging can support short check-ins or skill practice between sessions. These formats aim to make therapy more practical and easier to fit into daily life while keeping the focus on real skills and steady progress.
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.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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