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Cheryl Pickering, LCSW

  • Experience30 years
  • LocationArizona
  • Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Trauma and abuse
  • Therapy approachesClient-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
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About Cheryl

Cheryl Pickering is a licensed clinical social worker in Arizona with 30 years of clinical experience. She centers her practice on helping people through major life transitions and emotional challenges, offering steady, experienced guidance for concerns such as depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, and ADHD.

Background and approach

Her background supports work with a wide range of issues including relationship and family concerns, sleeping difficulties, parenting stress, anger, career changes, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue. Cheryl combines a compassionate, person-focused stance with practical strategies to foster resilience and clearer thinking.

She often integrates client-centered principles to create a respectful, nonjudgmental environment and uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients identify patterns and build new coping skills. Additional areas she addresses include aging and geriatric issues, chronic pain and illness, caregiver stress, communication problems, hoarding, and complex family dynamics.

Sessions are offered through flexible online formats tailored to each person’s needs. Cheryl aims to help people process difficult emotions, rebuild confidence, and move forward with greater clarity and purpose.

Evidence-Informed Methods for Online Care

Client-centered therapy places the person and their experience at the center of sessions, emphasizing empathy, active listening, and collaboration to help people feel heard and understood. This approach can be especially useful for processing grief, trauma, and self-esteem concerns by creating a respectful space for exploration.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and replacing them with practical strategies and skills. CBT is often applied to anxiety, depression, stress, sleeping difficulties, and many day-to-day coping challenges to produce more manageable routines and clearer thinking.

Deciding which approach fits best is part of the therapeutic process and is done collaboratively. The therapist will work with each person to assess goals, preferences, and presenting concerns and then tailor a plan that may draw from client-centered methods, CBT, or a combination of both.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase accessibility and convenience. These formats allow for scheduling flexibility and consistent contact when in-person visits are difficult, helping people maintain momentum in their work while fitting therapy into busy lives.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Cheryl commonly help with?
She works with a broad range of issues including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, depression, relationship and family problems, sleeping and parenting challenges, bipolar disorder, and ADHD.
What is Cheryl's therapeutic style like?
Her approach blends client-centered therapy, which emphasizes empathy and respect for each person's perspective, with cognitive behavioral techniques that focus on identifying thoughts and behaviors to build practical coping skills.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Cheryl brings 30 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker to her practice, applying long-term clinical insight across many presenting concerns.
Where is Cheryl licensed and practicing?
She is licensed as an LCSW in Arizona with licence number AZ LCSW LCSW-18295 and practices from that state.
Can someone who speaks another language work with Cheryl?
Sessions are conducted in English and she is not listed as offering services in other languages.
What session formats does she provide?
Available session formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different communication preferences.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What is the process for beginning work with her?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyTrauma and abuseGriefSelf esteemDepression

Also works with

Relationship issuesFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoping with life changesCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

Aging and geriatric issuesAntisocial personalityBlended family issuesCancerCaregiver issues and stressChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsDivorce and separationFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsForgivenessGuilt and shameHoardingHospice and end-of-life counselingInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMidlife crisisMood disordersPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Experience

30+ years

Licensed

Arizona

Languages

English

What Cheryl can help with

Cheryl Pickering works with clients on stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self esteem, and depression.

Cheryl works with individuals through complex life transitions and emotional challenges.

Cheryl works with clients navigating depression and anxiety.

How Cheryl approaches therapy

Cheryl's clinical approaches include Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

Experience and training

Cheryl is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Arizona, with 30 years of clinical experience.