Cheri Donahue, LMHC

Cheri Donahue is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of clinical experience working with individuals, children, and families. She focuses on treating depression, obsessive-compulsive concerns, anxiety, personality disorders, and issues related to abandonment, bringing steady, experienced support to complex emotional challenges. Cheri has worked directly with families who lost custody of their children due to neglect or substance abuse and provided mental health and substance use interventions to help those families work toward regaining custody. Her practice also addresses stress, trauma and abuse, grief, and self-esteem concerns, alongside a broad range of related issues such as caregiver stress, communication problems, dissociation, and codependency. Based in Florida and practicing in English, she combines clinical knowledge with practical, person-centered care to help clients develop coping skills, improve relationships, and manage symptoms over time. Cheri aims to tailor treatment to each person’s history and goals, offering steady guidance for those navigating life transitions, medical or caregiving challenges, and the lasting effects of trauma or loss.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Flexible Online Care

Cheri Donahue uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person's needs. She employs skills-focused strategies that help people identify and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and improve daily functioning. For clients affected by trauma and abuse, she applies trauma-focused methods that emphasize stabilization, processing of difficult memories over time, and rebuilding a sense of safety and control. She also offers supportive, grief-focused interventions that help people process loss, adapt to change, and find ways to maintain meaningful connections as they move forward.

Choosing the right therapeutic approach is part of the work itself. Cheri collaborates with each client to assess needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques as progress unfolds so the plan fits the individual rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all model.

Online therapy with Cheri can take place by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These remote options make it easier to attend sessions from home, while still allowing regular, structured contact with a licensed professional and a consistent path toward therapeutic goals.