Counsellor profile
Cheryl Smart, NCPS
United Kingdom
NCPS counsellor - relationships and anxiety
Continue with CherylWhere Cheryl stands
- Credentials
- NCPS
- Registration
- NCPS, United Kingdom / NCS23-04525
- Experience
- 4 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- United Kingdom
About
- Stress and anxiety
- Attachment issues
- Codependency support
About Cheryl
Cheryl Smart is an NCPS counsellor based in the United Kingdom with four years of experience. She has worked in schools, healthcare settings and online, helping people with stress, anxiety, trauma and relationship concerns. Cheryl also supports those coping with grief, low self-esteem and motivation difficulties.
She uses practical, talk-based work to help people notice what matters to them and make small changes. Sessions focus on clear goals such as reducing worry, managing mood swings, improving sleep, or handling difficult reactions to loss. Cheryl draws on approaches that encourage action and self-understanding rather than long lectures or homework-heavy programmes.
In sessions she pays attention to how earlier attachments and experiences shape current patterns. That can be useful for people who keep putting others first, struggle with setting boundaries, or live around another person's drinking or emotional volatility. She also works with concerns that often overlap with those patterns, including codependency, attachment issues and intimacy-related difficulties.
Cheryl uses techniques from cognitive behavioural and acceptance-based approaches to help people test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviours. Dialectical skills are used where strong emotions need step-by-step regulation. The style is collaborative and practical, with an emphasis on manageable steps people can practise between sessions.
Sessions are delivered in English and Cheryl accepts clients internationally. She asks prospective clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session through the service's booking flow. Costs vary by location and use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How sessions work
How Cheryl uses talking therapies online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) asks people to notice what matters and to take small committed steps towards those values while accepting difficult feelings. It can help with anxiety, low mood and problems that persist despite trying to control painful thoughts. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how earlier relationships shape current patterns. It helps people who struggle with boundaries, cling to others, or repeat the same relational mistakes.Choosing an approach is part of the work. Cheryl will work together with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process can mean trying brief exercises from different approaches and seeing what fits in practical terms.
The biography describes online practice but does not list exact session formats, so confirm the available options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example by avoiding travel, allowing a shorter check-in between commitments, or making it simpler to meet without needing to be on camera. Registered or accredited professionals often adapt shared techniques so people can practise skills at home and apply them in real situations.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
4+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and related concerns such as codependency and attachment difficulties.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is talk-based and practical, using goal-focused conversations and exercises from cognitive and acceptance-based approaches.
How much experience does she have?
She has four years of counselling experience across schools, healthcare settings and online platforms.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds NCPS credentialing and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in and can international clients join?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original biography notes online work but does not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How much do sessions cost?
Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session through the booking flow.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.