Cheri Gillings
Compassionate, practical therapy for everyday challenges
About Cheri
Cheri Gillings helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction recovery, low self-esteem and career or executive pressures. She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk honestly about what is hard right now. Cheri explains choices and next steps plainly so parents and busy professionals can understand them quickly.
Cheri works collaboratively with each person to set clear, manageable goals. She combines practical exercises with conversations that focus on values and what matters to the client.
Background and approach
Sessions often include techniques to notice unhelpful thoughts, try different behaviours and build everyday routines that support change. Over six years she has supported people through grief, relationship pain, compassion fatigue and the strain of caregiving. She also offers help around addiction, eating difficulties, bipolar and managing major life changes.
Her additional focus covers attachment and abandonment issues, codependency and problems that stem from family of origin dynamics. Cheri uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, solution-focused techniques and a client-centred way of working. Mindfulness exercises are offered where they suit the person's needs.
She explains each approach and adapts sessions to fit the client’s pace and aims. Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online in formats that suit modern life. Cheri supports people who want straightforward, practical help and who prefer a therapist who listens first and offers clear steps after.
What Cheri works with
How Cheri works
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Sessions & fees
Therapy approaches and online working
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps in that direction, even when uncomfortable thoughts or feelings show up. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical experiments to test new ways of coping. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on a warm, accepting relationship where the person is heard and guided at their own pace.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cheri will talk with the person about their needs, goals and preferences and then suggest approaches that might fit. That choice is made together and can be adjusted as therapy progresses to make sure it stays useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into everyday life. Video calls are useful when visual connection helps the conversation. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Chat and messaging are suited to shorter check-ins or when people prefer writing over speaking. These options make it possible to keep continuity of support across busy schedules and changing routines.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
