Sometimes life doesn’t unfold the way we expected. We may find ourselves facing anxiety, uncertainty, relationship struggles, loss, or changes we never anticipated. At other times, we may simply feel stuck and wonder how to move forward.

Cheryl Christopher is a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate who works with individuals, couples, and families across the lifespan. Her varied background in education, the arts, business leadership, writing, women’s ministry, and counseling has shaped the warmth, creativity, compassion, and genuine interest she brings to each person’s story. Cheryl seeks to create a place where clients feel heard and understood as they work through challenges, strengthen relationships, and move toward meaningful change.

AREAS OF EMPHASIS

• Anxiety, stress, and depression

• Couples, marriage, and relationship concerns

• Family relationships and communication

• Grief and loss (including child, spouse, parent, sibling, health, miscarriage, divorce, pet loss)

• College and young-adult concerns

• Academic and career pressures

• Life transitions, identity, and purpose

• Women's issues and changing family roles

• Caregiving, burnout, and later-life transitions

APPROACH TO COUNSELING

Cheryl uses an integrative, person-centered approach tailored to each client’s needs. Her work incorporates Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Restoration Therapy, and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples’ work.

Whether working with an individual, couple, or family, Cheryl helps clients recognize patterns that may be keeping them stuck, develop healthier ways of responding to difficult thoughts and emotions, improve communication and connection, and move toward greater clarity, resilience, and hope.

Education

• MA/Counseling, Lamar University

• BS/Education (Human Development), Lamar University

• Paris American Academy, Paris, France—Coursework in Fashion and Design

Credentials

• Licensed Professional Counselor Associate (#104002)
  (Under the supervision of Erik Salwen, LPC-S)

• Restoration Therapy Level 1 Trained

• Certified SYMBIS Assessment Facilitator (marriage counseling)

AUTHOR & SPEAKER

Cheryl is the author of two books on grief, A Portrait of Grief: Hope and Healing After the Loss of a Child and Forget Me Not: A Survival Guide for Grief. She has appeared on TBN Christian Television and numerous podcasts and speaks to churches and community groups on suicide prevention, grief, loss, and finding hope through difficult circumstances.

A LITTLE ABOUT CHERYL

Cheryl is married to her college sweetheart, and together they have four children and eight grandchildren. Having experienced the deaths of two of her sons, Cheryl understands personally that profound loss can become part of our story without becoming the whole of our story. Those experiences have deepened her compassion for people facing grief, unexpected change, and difficult seasons of life.

Outside of counseling, Cheryl enjoys spending time with family and friends, time outdoors, oil painting, exploring new cookbooks, and settling in with a good mystery.