Cheryl Hann, LPC, LCMHC

Cheryl Hann is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina. She brings ten years of experience helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career challenges, and depression. Cheryl focuses on practical steps that can make daily life feel more manageable. Her work is grounded in listening and tailoring the conversation to each person. She uses approaches like client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to address thoughts, emotions, and coping. Sessions often include goal-setting, practicing new skills, and unpacking thought patterns that keep problems stuck. Cheryl has experience with addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, and challenges around eating and sleeping. She also helps people facing compassion fatigue, ADHD-related struggles, and the emotional fallout of life changes. Additional areas she attends to include body image, codependency, commitment and communication problems, and issues tied to caregiving or cancer. She has documented experience with military and veteran populations and training in religious trauma and life after leaving high-demand religious groups. Her background in Hispanic and Chicano cultural studies and university-level Spanish language testing inform her cultural perspective. Cheryl emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She works collaboratively to build a plan that fits each person’s needs and encourages small, steady steps toward more satisfying daily life.

Therapeutic approaches for online support and midlife change

Client-centered therapy is about making the conversation reflect the person's needs. The therapist listens closely, responds without judgment, and helps people find their own solutions. This approach can help when someone needs a sounding board while navigating big life shifts or midlife questions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against everyday reality. It teaches practical strategies to change thinking patterns and behaviors that contribute to anxiety, low mood, or career-related stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness, which can be useful when relationships or intense feelings are part of the problem.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up, then recommend techniques that fit. That plan can change over time as needs shift.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the specific session formats available before booking. Online care can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce commute time, and allow for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. Working with a licensed professional online lets people practice new skills in their everyday routines and bring issues that come up between sessions into therapy for problem-solving.