About Cheryl
Cheryl Martin is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with fifteen years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma find clearer ways to cope and move forward.
Background and approach
Cheryl aims to make sessions feel straightforward and practical. She creates an open space where people can say what they’re feeling and be heard without judgment.
Conversations focus on what matters now and what small steps could help in day-to-day life. Her work addresses relationship and family concerns, intimacy-related issues, parenting challenges, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
She also focuses on feelings of abandonment, isolation, and questions about life purpose and self-love. Cheryl uses a range of methods to match each person’s needs rather than a single fixed approach.
Over the years she has used client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused methods, EMDR for trauma-related processing, and psychodynamic ideas about patterns and early influences. These tools help with symptoms and with understanding recurring patterns in relationships and self-talk.
Sessions are offered in English and Tagalog for people located in California. Cheryl’s style is collaborative and practical - she helps people set manageable goals and practices they can use between sessions.
The focus is on steady progress and clearer coping in everyday life.
How Cheryl’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what the client says so people feel understood and can find their own solutions; it helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort through emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and handle stressful situations. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and express core emotions and improve emotional connections in relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cheryl will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then use one or a mix of methods to match those needs. This collaborative process lets the approach change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a shorter check-in option, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, and other daily demands while keeping therapy consistent and practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Tagalog