Therapist profile
Cheri Donahue, LMHC
Florida
Florida LMHC - Stress and Codependency
Continue with CheriWhere Cheri stands
- Credentials
- LMHC
- License
- LMHC, Florida / MH24479
- NPI
- 1063626307
- Experience
- 25 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- Florida
About
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief and loss
- Boundary work
About Cheri
Cheri Donahue is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. Cheri also addresses codependency and related relationship struggles where people put others first to their own cost.
Clients can expect straightforward, practical conversation about what is causing strain. Cheri talks through coping strategies, boundary challenges, and ways to reduce overwhelming daily stress. She draws on approaches that have a research base to help with symptoms and behavior change.
Her background includes long experience helping people affected by abandonment, attachment concerns, caregiver stress, substance-related family problems, and domestic violence. She has supported people through loss, medical crises such as cancer, and transitions including divorce and separation.
Cheri has worked with situations involving dissociation, dependent personality patterns, control issues, and co-morbidity of mental health concerns. That experience informs her use of clear, step-by-step methods to manage symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.
People who want help setting limits, handling recurring people-pleasing, or coping with another person's drinking or crisis will find a direct, experienced clinician. To start, clients follow the site's process to complete a short questionnaire and schedule an initial session.
How sessions work
Approaches used and how online work fits
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques often include methods that focus on changing unhelpful patterns and on teaching concrete skills. For example, cognitive-based approaches look at thoughts and behaviors that keep stress and anxiety active and teach alternative ways to respond. Skill-focused methods teach tools for managing intense emotions, handling flashbacks, and improving day-to-day functioning.Therapy is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to figure out which approaches fit their goals and preferences. That means trying practical strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting methods as needed rather than assuming one fixed plan.
Confirm the specific online session options before booking since formats were not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example shorter check-ins around a work break, sessions that avoid travel time, or meeting when leaving home is difficult. It can also allow for quieter surroundings or phone-only check-ins when video is not needed. Licensed professionals use these formats to make regular sessions more manageable while focusing on the same skills and behavior changes used in face-to-face care.
Areas of focus
Areas of expertise
Additional focus areas
Experience
25+ years
Listed in
Florida
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. Additional areas include codependency, abandonment, caregiver stress, and domestic violence.
What is her style of therapy?
Cheri uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and practical conversation. Sessions focus on skills, behavior change, and managing daily symptoms.
How long has she been practicing?
She has 25 years of clinical experience working with adults facing a range of mental health and family-related challenges.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Florida LMHC and practices in Florida.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people from other countries work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions paid for?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to begin?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.