Cheryl Pacione
Practical, experienced mental health counseling
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cheryl
Cheryl Pacione is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or major life changes. Cheryl aims to make therapy practical and focused so clients can find clearer direction and better day-to-day coping.
Cheryl uses straightforward conversations and goal-oriented techniques. She draws from client-centered work, mindfulness, narrative tools, and solution-focused strategies to address repeating patterns and stuck areas.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on small, doable steps that build toward larger changes. Her background includes vocational counseling and experience with disability-related workplace issues, which can be useful when job stress or career changes are part of the concern. She has also worked with people facing identity and intimacy questions, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, addiction, and attention-related challenges.
Cheryl typically blends short-term problem solving with deeper reflective work when helpful. She encourages practical homework and simple skill practice between sessions. The aim is to leave clients with clearer choices and skills they can use right away.
She practices from New York and offers a mix of live sessions and message-based formats. Prospective clients begin by completing a brief matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
Approaches and how they work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and creating a respectful space where clients lead the conversation; it helps when someone needs validation and clearer choices. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce rumination and ease anxiety and stress. Narrative Therapy looks at the stories people tell about themselves and helps rewrite unhelpful narratives to open up new possibilities.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made. The focus is on what helps the person move forward in daily life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for busy people. Video calls let conversations feel more like in-person sessions while keeping travel time low. Phone sessions can be a good alternative when video is not convenient. Live chat and text-based messaging provide flexible, on-the-go check-ins and allow continued support between live sessions. These options make it easier to fit regular care into a packed schedule while keeping the therapeutic process consistent and ongoing.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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