Cheryl specializes in helping individual adults struggling with stress, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship issues, coping with trauma (recent and past), operational stress injuries, and life transitions, including those related to work, family, relationships, grief, and loss.

Cheryl adapts her therapeutic approach to match clients’ unique circumstances, preferences, and related needs by using a variety of therapy models including, for example, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Brief Solution Focused Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy. Cheryl has also completed advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy to better serve clients in relationship distress. She has extensive experience helping clients with their concerns in a brief number of sessions and is a registered provider with a number of organizations including various employment and insurance agencies and the Crime Victim Assistance Program. She is also an endorsed clinician for the BC Professional Fire Fighters Association.

Cheryl received a Master of Counselling degree jointly from the University of Calgary, University of Lethbridge, and Athabasca University, and received the convocation award for having the highest grade point average. Aligned with her counselling philosophy, Cheryl’s research has included identifying counselling processes that foster greater client and counsellor collaboration, promote client’s strengths and expertise, and increase the likelihood of successful outcomes. She also completed a study examining the optimal treatment of depression in the greater Nanaimo area that she presented at the 2006 Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association. She has been working in private practice since 2008 with Campbell & Fairweather Psychology Group.