About Cheryl
Cheryl Wharton is a licensed marriage and family therapist with thirty years of counseling experience. She aims to help people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward.
Background and approach
Her style is straightforward and warm, with a focus on practical steps that make daily life feel better. Cheryl draws on a mix of approaches to suit each person.
She encourages clients to talk about their experiences, name their strengths, and try small changes that add up. Sessions emphasize clear goals, skill building, and honest reflection so progress can be noticed between visits.
Her work often addresses stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and intimacy or relationship concerns. She also helps people dealing with parenting strain, blended family issues, codependency, and problems with communication or commitment.
Cheryl pays attention to how life events shape behavior and relationships over time. In sessions she uses practical tools from evidence-based methods along with mindfulness and existential ideas about meaning and choice.
Cheryl emphasizes building resilience, improving connection, and reclaiming purpose. She encourages vulnerability as a path to authentic living.
Clients who choose Cheryl typically want steady guidance, clear strategies, and a therapist who listens without judgment. She works with each person to set realistic steps and to practice new ways of relating to themselves and others.
The focus is on helping people move from surviving to living more fully.
How therapy approaches map to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and supporting each person where they are. It involves reflective conversation that helps people clarify their own goals and feel heard, and it works well for relationship concerns and building self-esteem.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes because it emphasizes skills and homework that can be practiced between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That selection can shift over time as progress happens and new challenges emerge.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people engage face-to-face when a visual conversation helps. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to get brief support between longer sessions.
These formats allow licensed professionals to use CBT exercises, client-centered listening, and mindfulness practices across different channels, helping people work on skills and relationships without changing their daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English