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I know this is a big step. Reaching out for help and support. I understand that right now you may be feeling lost, frustrated, angry, depressed or anxious . I understand what you are going through. I have been there. I know what it s like to be scared, worried, alone and overwhelmed. Right now you may not even be able to identify what you are feeling. I understand you may have numerous questions and feel like you don't have any answers to what is happening in your life right now. You are in the right place this is where I come in. I am here to listen to you share your story with me and have you allow me to help you to figure out how to move forward in your life, And be the best that you can be. You have it in you.
Let me introduce myself. I am Cheryl . I have worked in the substance abuse field for a very long time. I am a licensed alcohol and drug counselor . I received my Certified Clinical Supervisors certificate in 2005. I graduated from Springfield College with my Masters degree in Mental Health Counseling . I am also a licensed mental health counselor . I work with individuals, couples and families. I meet the client where they are at. I utilize client centered therapy to help the clients identify their strengths by utilizing motivation interview and cognitive behavioral therapy. I work effectively with clients who suffer with symptoms of depression, anxiety, mood disorders, PTSD and other mental health issues. I have experience with working with adolescence, adults and the elderly. I help clients see that change is possible. At times life can be difficult, challenging and unpredictable. These factors influence our wellbeing, as well as the way we react to our circumstances. Psychotherapy is a collaborative process between a client and his or her therapist. As your therapist I will assist you in exploring personal, relational, mental health, drug or alcohol problems or any other issues that might be impacting your life.
My counseling philosophy is that, you are the expert in your own life. You being the expert means, that we will work together to come up with the best skills for you to move from the place you are to the place you want to be. We work together to help you learn skills to navigate from your current situation , to a new place in your life. I use Person-Centered and Strength-Based styles to help each person come up with skills needed to help you in your current situations. My role is to guide and support you in learning and implementing the skills and confidence needed to help you improve your overall life. Together, working as a team, We can come up with the best skills to ensure success. I am down to earth, and I make myself available, so that I can provide a listening ear, relevant feedback and support when needed. I look forward to meeting you and working together to ensure success. I am here to listen to you and support you as you face your current conflict or crisis in your live. Weather it is a search for meaning, help managing your stress, depression, anxiety or difficulty in your relationships, or traumatic events that may have happened. I am here to assist you to find stability and peace of mind.
What makes me different from other counselors?
I will engage with you on a regular consistent basis. This is not just a once a week platform. I check in on you on a daily basis. I am here to support you and be an outlet and advocate for you. This is a judgment free zone. So that you have a space to be yourself and discuss what is happening in your life. my goal is to help build you into the person you want to become. To have you be more resilient so you can be your own advocate. You can leave me a message at any time. I will respond to you as quickly as I can with relevant feedback and skills that you can start to implement immediately. The process is not easy but it is absolutely doable and you will see results. I make it my business to understand your experiences and offer realistic feedback and interventions to help you. I see each of my clients as unique individuals and thus my techniques and strategies are genuine to your specific needs. I am here to assist you to become the best person you can possible be.
My therapeutic style involves helping you to arrive at insight, strategies, and tools that you can begin using immediately to make positive change in your life. We don’t just sit and talk. I love to provide you with concrete tools wherever possible and help you to have a plan for the following days before our next session, if that is the pace you would like to move at. Most importantly, we are going to make sure we are making progress on goals that you have for yourself. I will be there to guide you, encourage you, possibly even challenge you if I feel you are unknowingly allowing obstacles to stand in your way.
You may find it helpful to know that I have a lot of experience being the client in a counseling relationship and I was very picky about what I looked for in my therapist/counselor. I am a person who needs to know I can say absolutely anything to my counselor and they won’t think any less of me. I need to feel understood, validated, and (I’ll admit) almost admired in their presence in order to feel that I can say things that I hold back from saying in my ordinary life. If this is the kind of relationship you would like to have with your counselor, too, then I understand you and you’ve come to the right place.
Together, we will address your individual needs and establish goals that promote growth and healing. I will provide a confidential place for disclosure, diagnostic and educational material, a treatment plan, and crisis intervention or referral services as needed. The duration of psychotherapy varies, depending on the client’s history, present circumstances, issues explored during treatment, and the mutually established goals for treatment. My motto is Empowering people. Let me help empower you.
I look forward to working with you through betterhelp. You have taken the first step by reaching out. Now let your journey begin.
You may leave me a message 24-7….I check my messages through the day daily! Also, if you cannot find a time available, let me know! I am flexible and typically have select times in my schedule that aren't visible. Just talk with me and I can assure you that I will schedule a time to meet with you. You may notice that I do not have any time slots available. I put my hours up for the next week on Thursdays. If you can not find a time . I am able to do live text sessions. Before you decide to switch counselors please reach out to me and let me know what specific day and time you are looking for. I can often accommodate .Please reach out to me with a day and time that work for you. Also you can only have one session booked at a time. Also please note that I am on Eastern Standard Time.
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Professional experience
30yrs in practice
Additional areas of focus:Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Self esteem, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Abandonment, Adoption and Foster Care, Aging and Geriatric Issues, Antisocial Personality, Attachment Issues, Blended Family Issues, Codependency, Control Issues, Coping with Natural or Human-Caused Disaster, Dependent Personality, Dissociation, Divorce and Separation, Domestic Violence, Drug and Alcohol Addiction, Eating and Food-Related Issues, Family Problems, First Responder Issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and Shame, Hoarding, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Jealousy, Life Purpose, Men's Issues, Military and Veterans Issues, Mood Disorders, Narcissism, Obsessions, Compulsions, and OCD, Panic Disorder and Panic Attacks, Paranoia, Personality Disorders, Phobias, Postpartum Depression, Post-traumatic Stress, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-Harm, Self-Love, Sexual Assault and Abuse, Social Anxiety and Phobia, Traumatic Brain Injury, Trichotillomania, Women's Issues, Workplace Issues
These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Cheryl Bowen. We don’t pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with BetterHelp might be different.
Cheryl is a great listener and helps me sort through my feelings without dismissing them.
Written on Nov 14, 2022 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and family conflicts
She is great!!
Written on Aug 23, 2022 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, relationship issues, family conflicts, and trauma and abuse
Cheryl is very responsive and empathetic to my issues and concerns. I feel like she u set stand my situation and addresses the issues well.
Written on Feb 04, 2022 after therapy with Cheryl for 7 months on issues concerning relationship issues, and family conflicts
Very relatable and nonjudgmental. Look forward to appointments.
Written on Jan 27, 2022 after therapy with Cheryl for 1 year on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, family conflicts, self esteem, anger management, and coping with life changes
Cheryl does her best to advise me and support me with my complex needs
Written on Oct 03, 2021 after therapy with Cheryl for 6 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and sleeping disorders
Cheryle is an excellent counselor and has certainly been a big part of guiding me through improving my daily life. Thank you Cheryle!
Written on Sep 01, 2021 after therapy with Cheryl for 8 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, career difficulties, and coping with life changes
awesome counselor
Written on Aug 20, 2021 after therapy with Cheryl for 11 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting issues, self esteem, anger management, and compassion fatigue
Great therapist! I felt like i was understood and being helped.
Written on Aug 01, 2021 after therapy with Cheryl for 3 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, lgbt, family conflicts, and self esteem
I found Cheryl last winter when the pandemic was at it's height and I desperately needed to speak with someone. From the start she has always been so calm, kind, and thoughtful, and would reach out daily to check in and make sure that I was doing ok and offering helpful tips and readings to try. She helped me through some tough things, and if I ever were to reactivate my account she would be the person I would request to see again, hands down. If you're looking for an attentive, understanding, and dedicated counselor, Cheryl is it!
Written on Jul 21, 2021 after therapy with Cheryl for 5 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue
Cheryl has been a great counsellor. I am a senior and this is the first time in my life I have sought counselling so I was nervous and had no idea what to expect. Cheryl made me feel comfortable from day 1 and continues to help me sort through my issues and identify the root of the problem. She is easy to talk to and has always made herself easily available for contact. Cheryl has personally been a big help to me and I am looking forward to continuing with her as I work through issues that have been in my life for many years.
Written on Jul 15, 2021 after therapy with Cheryl for 4 months on issues concerning relationship issues
I love Cheryl, she's one of the few therapists that give you practical worksheets to improve yourself and I am very grateful for her.
Written on Jul 12, 2021 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, and self esteem
Cheryl makes you feel appreciated. She does not judge and is very easy to talk to. I can recommend her.
Written on Jul 07, 2021 after therapy with Cheryl for 6 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, career difficulties, and coaching
Cheryl is great! She shared so many resources with me and helped me use the Betterhelp app’s features to make sure we could talk through certain issues completely. She’s easy to talk to, and offers advice and strategies for moving forward.
Written on Apr 13, 2021 after therapy with Cheryl for 1 week on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and adhd
Cheryl is the 3rd therapist i have tried speaking with and I finally feel heard, sympathized with, and not harshly judged for getting myself in a hard spot.
Written on Mar 13, 2021 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue
This was my first time going to therapy. Cheryl was great at listening, asking the questions that allowed us to dig deeper. She assigns worksheets that complemented with my self awareness. I would seek her for therapy again. Her schedule does tend to book up quickly.
Written on Mar 08, 2021 after therapy with Cheryl for 1 month
Chery was responsive and provided support quickly and made herself available when I needed her support for a relationship issue related to substance abuse.
Written on Feb 13, 2021 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, lgbt, relationship issues, family conflicts, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, and coping with life changes
She has given me amazing articles to read that has really helped me in my thinking. ( self esteem )
Written on Feb 10, 2021 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, self esteem, career difficulties, coaching, and adhd
I’ve texted with Cheryl, and even through text she’s made me feel like I was in the room with her. It’s lovely to finally be able to talk to someone I enjoy.
Written on Feb 03, 2021 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, parenting issues, self esteem, and adhd
My first appointment with Cheryl was awesome - I have never gone to therapy before, but I really really enjoyed it! To me it was fun/nice to talk about everything that has been bothering me or stressing me out. I will be making more appointments for sure.
Written on Jan 14, 2021 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, grief, self esteem, coping with life changes, and adhd
Cheryl is great. She gives helpful advice about my issues and ways to cope with them in between sessions. She also sends helpful articles and checks in in between sessions. She always makes herself available on the chat section when needed and is quick to respond. Highly recommend Cheryl!
Written on Jan 02, 2021 after therapy with Cheryl for 4 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, eating disorders, self esteem, and anger management
Lots of helpful resources. Great communicator.
Written on Dec 28, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 4 weeks on issues concerning grief, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, and self esteem
Kind, empathetic, knowledgeable, great listener and excellent at what she does. Thankyou so much for you support
Written on Dec 26, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 5 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, and adhd
I’m extremely happy with Cheryl thus far. I feel better about some things and look forward to digging deeper into my issues. For the first time in a while I feel a bit of a weight coming off of my shoulders. It feels great to express and release all of these feelings and issues I’ve bottled inside for literally decades.
Written on Dec 15, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, self esteem, and adhd
I really enjoy my counselling sessions with Cheryl. I find Cheryl highly empathetic, patient and respectful. I don't feel judged when I talk to her. She is a great listener and asks good questions that make me reflect and analize my actions and views. I appreciate Cheryl sharing additional information with me between our sessions and checking in with me. She is a great councillor. I wish I could see Cheryl more than once a week and have longer sessions with her.
Written on Nov 26, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 4 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, lgbt, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, self esteem, career difficulties, coaching, and adhd
Cheryl has a warm, energetic presence and asks all the good questions, even though tough ones!
Written on Nov 25, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes
I felt very supported with Cheryl. Even though I did not share much as I was busy, I still felt like I had someone to listen to me. I recieved helpful tips and advice along the way, it was exactly what I needed. Thank you!
Written on Nov 10, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, grief, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, compassion fatigue, and adhd
Cheryl listen and help me with my issues. She offers a variety of solutions.
Written on Nov 06, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, and sleeping disorders
With two sessions completed I can already tell Cheryl is incredibly experienced. Cheryl is great at letting me vent and lends me honest and constructive advice while keeping my spirits high. Would recommend to anyone. Thanks, Cheryl!
Written on Oct 27, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 3 weeks on issues concerning relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue
I have loved my experience with Cheryl so far, she always responds to messages any time of the day, makes herself available and not only offers personal support and guidance but signposts to other relevant materials that could be helpful. I think that Cheryl is a wonderful counsellor and I would highly recommend.
Written on Oct 07, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety
It is still early days with my counselling sessions with Cheryl, but I find I am very comfortable talking to her about any problems and don't feel judged. I have confidence in her ability to suggest different strategies to support these issues. Cheryl always responds to messages in a timely manner and makes you feel supported.
Written on Oct 06, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning intimacy-related issues, and sleeping disorders
Cheryl was very patient, approachable, and consistently shared helpful resources. I would recommend her to anyone.
Written on Oct 05, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, self esteem, career difficulties, and coaching
I have had a great experience with better help. Lots of homework and reading if you want it. Always available or responding in a timely manner.
Written on Sep 18, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, self esteem, coping with life changes, and adhd
Cheryl has been great so far. It’s still early days but I have found her kind and very realistic. I like her straightforward approach and her positivity.
Looking forward to continuing this journey with her.
Written on Aug 31, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, self esteem, career difficulties, and coping with life changes
she’s a very understand person. sees both sides of things. one thing i ask from a person is to listen and she does that very well.
Written on Aug 10, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and self esteem
I spoke with Cheryl three times and messaged with her frequently over the course of a couple months. This was my first experience with counseling. Cheryl gave me exactly what I needed, pointing me in the right direction and giving me piles of information to chew on and tools to put into practice. She also helped me identify areas of my life that I need to work on that I was not previously aware of, like being able to accept compliments to improve my self-esteem. She listened to my concerns about depression, anxiety, grief, work--life balance, and anger patiently and gave me respectful and thoughtful feedback. Cheryl gave me the springboard I needed when I had no idea where to start.
Written on Aug 02, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, and anger management
Cheryl is amazing and I am very fortunate to be working with her.
Written on Jul 30, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, grief, anger management, coping with life changes, coaching, and compassion fatigue
I feel like I can talk to her and chat
Written on Jul 15, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, family conflicts, self esteem, and anger management
She is amazing, very comfortable to talk to, understanding, and very nice, I personally feel better after everytime we talk.
Written on Jul 02, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, self esteem, anger management, career difficulties, and adhd
Cheryl has been diligent and attentive. She is very on top of communication& responds to any of my messages promptly. We just started working together so I needs to peel back more layers of the core of what I'm working through, but so far its been great.
Written on Apr 30, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, intimacy-related issues, anger management, compassion fatigue, and adhd
Cheryl is fantastic. She takes the time to listen and lightly guide. She is responsive and makes great recommendations. Her follow up has been fantastic and she helps keep me on track.
Written on Apr 19, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes
I found Cheryl very open and easy to talk to. She is incredibly responsive to messages and had convenient times for me to schedule live appointments. Her guidance and support was helpful and very practical, which I found helpful.
Written on Apr 03, 2020 after therapy with Cheryl for 1 month on issues concerning self esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, coaching, and compassion fatigue
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