Therapist profile
Cheryl Pacione, LMHC
New York
Licensed Mental Health Counselor - Anger and Life Stress
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- CredentialsLMHC
- LicenseLMHC, New York / 000377
- NPI1376270207
- Experience25 years
- LanguagesEnglish
- LocationNew York
About
- Solution-focused methods
- Client-centered listening
- Vocational counseling
About Cheryl
Cheryl Pacione is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in New York with 25 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship concerns, parenting strain, grief, and anger. She also supports those dealing with career questions, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and issues tied to trauma and abuse.
Her work is practical and direct. Cheryl draws on solution-focused methods and combines them with client-centered listening. She pays attention to patterns in behavior and thinking that keep problems repeating. Conversations aim to be straightforward and useful for day-to-day life.
Cheryl has long experience supporting LGBTQ people and people in non-monogamous relationships. She served on a New York State committee for inclusion and diversity and brings that background to conversations about identity and sexual expression. Her vocational counseling experience means she can help with job-related stress and career transitions.
She also works with people on the autism spectrum, and with clients navigating abandonment, attachment, or foster care and adoption histories. Cheryl mentions familiarity with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the practical needs that can arise when disability intersects with mental health.
Many clients combine message-based communication with regular live sessions by video or phone. She aims to respond to messages within 24 hours. To start, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online work
Cheryl uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's experience and priorities. That approach means sessions concentrate on what matters most to the client and on practical changes they want to make. It often helps with relationship concerns, self-esteem, and managing anger.She also draws on mindfulness therapy, which teaches attention to bodily sensations and thought patterns. Mindfulness techniques can help with stress, anxiety, sleep problems, and impulsive reactions. Narrative therapy is used to look at the stories people tell about themselves and test whether those stories still serve them; it can be useful for trauma, identity questions, and shifting long-standing patterns.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Cheryl will discuss goals, preferences, and daily routines, and together they decide what methods to try. That collaborative process lets techniques be adjusted if something isn't helping.
The profile notes a common combination clients use: message-based communication plus weekly live sessions by video or phone. Please confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit counseling around work, caregiving, and other obligations, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and remove travel time so sessions are more practical to keep.
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Experience
25+ years
Listed in
New York
Languages
English
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Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, anger, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, grief, career questions, ADHD, bipolar concerns, trauma and related areas.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and solution-focused, combined with client-centered listening and techniques from narrative and mindfulness approaches.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 25 years of experience as a clinician and has worked across diverse populations and settings.
What credentials and location information are listed?
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) licensed in New York and practices from New York.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats does she use?
The biography notes a mix of message-based communication plus regular live sessions by video or phone; confirm current session options before booking.
How are costs handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to begin working together?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a 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 anyone is unsafe, use the crisis numbers.