Cheryl McDonald

Cheryl McDonald is an LCSW in Oregon with over ten years of practice in community mental health. She provides trauma-informed treatment and has worked extensively with people experiencing depression, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, serious mental illness diagnoses, and with crisis de-escalation. Her clinical interests include stress, trauma and abuse, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue.

Cheryl also addresses co-morbidity and communication problems, and offers support for those affected by natural or human-caused disaster, domestic violence, and drug and alcohol addiction. Additional focus areas listed in her practice include emptiness, first responder issues, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, phobias, post-traumatic stress, seasonal affective disorder, self-harm, self-love, social anxiety, and phobia. She emphasizes collaborative assessment and care planning, drawing on a decade of community mental health experience to support people through both immediate crises and longer-term challenges. Sessions are conducted in English and the profile indicates she does not accept international clients.