About Cheryl
Cheryl Curtiss helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strains, and family tensions. She also supports those dealing with grief, parenting challenges, intimacy concerns, mood changes, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Cheryl is a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - working in Connecticut with three decades of experience. She keeps sessions straightforward and down to earth.
Cheryl focuses on listening first, then working with each person to set clear goals. Conversations cover thoughts, feelings, and practical steps clients can try between meetings.
Her approach is collaborative. Cheryl encourages open talk about what’s worrying someone and looks for small changes that produce relief.
She pays attention to family patterns, past hurts, and how daily routines affect mood and relationships. Cheryl has worked in the field for 30 years and draws on that experience when planning care.
She aims to make the process understandable and manageable, not overwhelming. Parents and individuals find the pace flexible to their needs.
Sessions may include problem-solving around parenting, coping strategies for anxiety, support after loss, or guidance through separation and blended family issues. Cheryl also addresses concerns like hoarding, infidelity, postpartum depression, and multicultural stressors.
The focus is on practical steps and steady progress.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Cheryl uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach involves identifying unhelpful patterns in thoughts and behaviors and practicing new responses to reduce anxiety and improve mood. This helps with stress, depression, and daily coping challenges. Another frequent focus is relationship- and family-centered work that clarifies communication patterns, addresses intimacy and parenting concerns, and supports people through separation, blended family issues, or infidelity.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Cheryl treats therapy as a partnership and will help clients pick methods that match their goals, comfort level, and life situation. She regularly checks in and adjusts the plan as needs change so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation without travel; phone sessions work well when video isn’t possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can serve as quick check-ins or a way to process between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain momentum during life transitions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English