Cheri Mills
Practical, compassionate therapy focused on change
LCSW Utah
- Experience
- 8 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Cheri
Cheri Mills draws on cognitive behavioral principles alongside client-centered and trauma-focused methods to help people navigate stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and life transitions.
Background and approach
As an LCSW licensed in Utah, she blends practical skills training with empathic listening to identify patterns that maintain distress and to build strategies for change. Her eight years of clinical experience include work with trauma and abuse, depression, intimacy-related concerns, compassion fatigue, and a broad range of relational and personal difficulties.
Cheri emphasizes the client as the expert in their own story, meeting each person where they are while offering tools to reduce symptoms and increase day-to-day functioning. She also addresses related areas such as body image, codependency, communication challenges, and substance use concerns, tailoring interventions to the issues a client brings.
Cheri supports exploration of life purpose, healing from grief or guilt, and restoring a greater sense of connection and resilience as clients move toward meaningful goals.
Evidence-Informed Approaches Adapted for Online Care
CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, teaching practical skills for anxiety, depression, and stress management; sessions typically involve structured exercises and at-home practice. Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist follows the client's lead and supports personal insight and growth through empathic listening. DBT offers skills training in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness and can be useful when intense emotions or relationship patterns interfere with daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and this therapist collaborates with each person to determine which methods fit their goals, values, and preferences. That collaborative conversation helps shape a personalized plan that may combine strategies from different modalities as progress unfolds.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for people balancing work, family, or mobility constraints. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care, try brief check-ins between sessions, and access evidence-informed techniques from a licensed professional without needing to travel to an office.
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Experience
8+ years
Licensed
Utah
Languages
English