Cherrelle Brown, LMFT

Cherrelle Brown is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 12 years of clinical experience practicing in California. She combines relational perspective and trauma-informed care to help individuals, couples, and families navigate conflict, loss, and life transitions. As a doctoral student in Clinical Child Psychology, she is expanding her training at the intersection of neurobiology and psychodynamic therapy, bringing a deeper understanding of how brain processes and unconscious patterns influence behavior and relationships.

Cherrelle works with a range of concerns including trauma recovery, anxiety disorders, relationship conflict, family systems challenges, PTSD, and grief. She draws on evidence-based methods such as Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, tailoring those approaches to the specific needs of each person or family. Her approach emphasizes practical coping strategies alongside exploration of relational patterns and underlying emotional processes.

She aims to create a supportive environment where clients can explore difficult experiences and develop more effective ways of relating to themselves and others. Cherrelle encourages people to view beginning therapy as a brave step toward change and supports them through each phase of the process.

Evidence-Based Approaches for Online Sessions

Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) centers on helping people process traumatic events while building practical coping skills. It combines learning to manage distressing thoughts and feelings with gradual exposure to difficult memories, and is often used for trauma-related symptoms and PTSD.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors that contribute to anxiety, low mood, and relationship difficulties. It emphasizes clear strategies and homework to support measurable progress between sessions.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy blends mindfulness practices with cognitive techniques to reduce rumination and support emotional regulation, which can be helpful for mood and anxiety concerns. Cherrelle draws from these evidence-based approaches and adapts them to each person’s situation.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Cherrelle will work with clients to explore goals, preferences, and responses to different methods, and together they will adjust the plan as therapy unfolds.

Online sessions offer flexibility and accessibility through video calls, phone meetings, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity when travel or caregiving responsibilities intervene, and connect with licensed professionals from the comfort of home while preserving the therapeutic relationship.