About Cherie
Cherie Felzer welcomes people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to turn. She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career questions, grief, and struggles with self-esteem and life purpose.
Background and approach
Cherie writes plainly and meets people where they are, offering steady, patient support as they work through change. Cherie is a licensed marriage and family therapist, LMFT, and brings 11 years of clinical experience to her work in Hawaii.
Her background includes long-term engagement with movement practices and somatic approaches that help people connect with their bodies and emotions. She also draws on mindfulness and attachment-based ideas to support healing and stronger relationships.
In sessions she blends talking with body-centered awareness and gentle mindfulness exercises. That can mean noticing how emotions show up in the body, slowing down to breathe, or practicing new ways of relating to oneself and others.
The goal is practical: reduce overwhelm, build self-compassion, and find clearer next steps. Cherie has worked with people facing addictions, compassion fatigue, and the challenges of serious illness, including cancer and end-of-life concerns.
She also supports people navigating isolation, life transitions, and questions of meaning and purpose. Her approach values listening, presence, and collaboration.
Clients can expect a compassionate guide who helps them translate insight into day-to-day change. Cherie aims to help people reconnect with their own inner sense of direction so they can move forward with more ease and confidence.
How somatic and mindfulness approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on connection and safety in relationships. Online sessions talk through how patterns formed in relationships affect current reactions, and help people practice new ways of relating to others and themselves. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and acceptance. In remote sessions the therapist follows the client's lead, reflecting concerns and supporting self-directed problem solving and growth.Cherie blends somatic and mindfulness practices into this online framework. Somatic therapy invites attention to bodily sensations and movement to access emotions that words alone may not reach. Mindfulness exercises help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting swept away, which can reduce reactivity and support clearer choices. The therapist and client decide together which approaches to try, adjusting based on goals, comfort, and what feels most helpful.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and guided breath or movement work. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins, written reflection, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping a collaborative therapeutic process.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California, Hawaii
- Languages
- English