Cheryl Coney, LPC

Cheryl Coney is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and other life challenges. She practices in Virginia and brings a warm, interactive style to sessions. Cheryl focuses on practical steps clients can take right away to feel steadier and more in control.

She uses a mix of approaches that include cognitive behavioral methods, dialectical skills, mindfulness, and client-centered listening. In session she helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. She also works with concerns such as obsessions and compulsions, personality disorders, self-harm, and compassion fatigue.

Cheryl aims to treat each person with respect and sensitivity. She avoids stigmatizing labels and encourages clients to define what success looks like for them. Sessions emphasize collaboration, clear goals, and skills that can be practiced between meetings.

Her background includes work in residential, inpatient, and outpatient settings, supporting people through trauma, emotional abuse, and major life changes. Cheryl holds a Bachelor of Science in Social Work and a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology.

She helps people break down problems into manageable steps and build confidence as they practice new ways of coping. For those who prefer direct, compassionate guidance and concrete tools, her approach blends practical techniques with supportive dialogue.

How Cheryl’s Approaches Work Online

Cheryl often uses cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice thoughts that cause distress and try practical experiments to change them. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many daily struggles where changing thinking and behavior helps reduce symptoms.

She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy techniques to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. These DBT-informed strategies can help when emotions feel overwhelming or relationships are strained. Cheryl pairs those methods with a client-centered way of listening that focuses on what matters most to the person sitting across from her.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work together. Cheryl will discuss goals and preferences and adjust the plan as needed, so each person gets approaches that fit their situation. The process is collaborative and paced to what the client can manage.

Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and practice skills in real time. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support short check-ins, homework help, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible to fit work, family, and daily life.