About Cheryl
Cheryl Hopkins is a licensed marriage and family therapist working in California. She brings 40 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety, navigate relationship concerns, cope with grief, and handle parenting challenges.
Background and approach
Cheryl speaks English and accepts international clients. She keeps sessions focused and straightforward.
Conversations are tailored to each person's situation and paced to match their comfort. Cheryl aims to offer practical steps and clearer ways to handle day-to-day problems.
Her work draws on approaches that help people notice their values, change unhelpful thinking, and build stronger emotional awareness. Sessions may include skill practice, role-based conversations, and mindful exercises to reduce reactivity and improve communication.
Cheryl adjusts techniques to what feels useful for each client. Over four decades she has supported people dealing with issues tied to adoption and foster care, blended family concerns, caregiver strain, aging, addiction, and major life transitions.
She also addresses common themes like guilt, shame, jealousy, and isolation. The focus is on helping people regain balance and move toward goals that matter to them.
Cheryl frames therapy as a partnership. She listens, offers feedback, and helps shape a plan that fits your life.
If you want clear next steps and steady support while you make changes, she can be a steady guide.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and situations where people feel stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going, and it often includes simple exercises you can practice between sessions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what works for the client. That way the plan fits individual preferences, needs, and daily life demands rather than forcing one fixed method.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls are good for in-depth conversations and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, practice prompts, and continuing work between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English