Cherith McIlroy
Compassionate relational counselling for life changes
About Cherith
Cherith McIlroy offers a warm, attentive presence for people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, loss, stress or family difficulties. She writes plainly and listens closely, helping clients name what is happening and take small steps toward feeling steadier. Cherith works from a relational stance and aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful.
Cherith is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, shown as BACP, and has around three years of professional experience.
Background and approach
She has supported people with depression, panic and anxiety, low self-esteem, and complicated grief including bereavement from suicide. She has also worked with trauma-related concerns such as complex trauma and childhood sexual abuse. In sessions Cherith focuses on building self-awareness so people can see how past patterns affect present life.
She uses practical tools alongside talking therapies to help manage symptoms like sleep problems, anger and panic. The pace is set by each person, with an emphasis on what feels manageable day to day. Cherith also offers help around family stress, communication problems, caregiver strain and relationship worries.
She names issues such as attachment difficulties, abandonment and feelings of emptiness when these are relevant to a person’s story. Therapy can include short-term goals or longer conversations about life changes and meaning. People can expect an approach that blends empathy with practical techniques.
Cherith encourages clients to use their own strengths as part of recovery and coping. She aims to work beside people while they rebuild a steadier sense of themselves.
What Cherith works with
How Cherith works
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Sessions & fees
How Cherith’s approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on the ways early relationships shape feelings and expectations in current relationships. It can help when people struggle with trust, abandonment fears or repeated relationship patterns.Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps people find their own solutions and make sense of difficult emotions.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is often useful for anxiety, panic, sleep problems and low mood.
Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. Cherith will work with each person to identify priorities, try different tools and adjust methods if something isn’t helping. The intention is to match approach to needs, goals and personal preference rather than imposing a single method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and body language, phone sessions can fit into busy days and need less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to build consistency and fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments.
| 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
