Cheryl Bellingham
Calm support for relationship and trauma recovery
About Cheryl
Cheryl Bellingham helps people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, anxiety and stress. She also supports those dealing with parenting pressures, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem and career concerns. Cheryl works with people affected by ADHD, bipolar issues, caregiver strain and chronic illness.
She is presented as a calm, approachable counsellor who aims to make difficult topics easier to talk about. Cheryl uses a straightforward style in sessions.
Background and approach
She listens first, then helps clients figure out practical steps they can try between meetings. Conversations are collaborative and paced to what each person needs. Sessions focus on the everyday problems that make life feel harder right now.
Her work draws on client-centred methods that put the person’s experience at the heart of the work. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try out new ways of responding. Motivational interviewing helps with changes clients want to make, and trauma-focused methods are used when past events keep affecting current life.
Cheryl has five years of experience working in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different routines. Sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time, and fees vary with location and therapist availability.
To begin, users select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability. Sessions are conducted in English and she is not taking international clients.
What Cheryl works with
How Cheryl works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that guide Cheryl's online work
Cheryl commonly uses client-centred work and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in online sessions. Client-centred work means she listens closely and follows the person’s lead, creating space to talk about what matters most. CBT involves noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing different actions to change how things feel and work day to day.These approaches are chosen to suit the person rather than to fit everyone the same way. Cheryl will talk with each client about their goals and preferences and help decide which methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls are good when seeing facial cues helps the conversation. Phone sessions can work well if someone has limited bandwidth or prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging make it possible to check in between meetings or to have shorter, more frequent contacts. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and health 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
