Cheryl Nelson

Cheryl Nelson, LMHC, is a licensed clinician in Massachusetts with 30 years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief and loss, depression, and addictions, and addresses relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. Her additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, blended family issues, caregiver stress, codependency, coping with disaster, divorce and separation, family of origin concerns, and related life transitions.

Her practice draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness, Client-Centered therapy, and Solution-Focused techniques. She aims to create an open environment where thoughts and feelings can be shared without fear of judgment and where practical skills and values-based goals can be explored. If desired, she can include a biblical worldview as one perspective during sessions.

Cheryl supports exploration of grief, mood concerns, phobias, seasonal shifts, self-harm ideation, and questions about life purpose, forgiveness, guilt, and shame. Prospective participants are encouraged to consider whether her combination of approaches and areas of focus fits the practical and emotional needs they wish to address.