Cheryl’s Specializations

 Disordered Eating/Food addiction-  Since 1990, Cheryl has focused on the field of food addiction. She is known as a local expert in the Louisville community and her holistic approach to treating food issues includes biochemistry, emotional, and spiritual components.  Cheryl treats a wide range of food issues ranging from compulsive overeating, emotional eating, food addiction, anorexia, bulimia including exercise, purging, and non-purging type, childhood obesity, as well as those who simply don’t know how to eat healthfully.  By addressing the chemical, emotional, and spiritual facets of the client, Cheryl can aid her clients in healing not only the body regarding disordered eating, but the emotional and spiritual being as well.

 Food plan/food preparation and shopping assistance-  Through consulting with you, Cheryl will help you devise an individual food plan free of trigger foods to encourage long term success different from the fleeting diets of the past.  She also offers assisting clients in shopping excursions as well as cooking/food preparation to help them on the road to abstinence from disordered eating.  

 Addiction-  Cheryl’s experience working in both inpatient as well as out-patient treatment settings for addiction enable her to have the ability to work with addictions of all types.  Ranging from chemical dependency, alcohol, food, sex, spending, shopping, gambling, or workaholism, her personal and profession experience provide her with a complimentary blend of nurturing and accountability  to enable her clients to shed the shell of addiction to reach one’s full potential.

 EMDR/Trauma-  Certified in both EMDR Level I and II, Cheryl continually enhance her skills in trauma resolution as well as transforming negative belief systems about self.  She attends monthly peer meetings in order to discuss current EMDR techniques as well as enhance existing skills.   Ranging from panic attacks to sexual abuse, dissociation, family of origin trauma issues, pain, or other significant life changing experiences, Cheryl utilizes this body centered approach to treat not only the symptoms that bring clients to her office, but to find and resolve the cause of these issues for deep, consistent resolution.

 Couples Counseling-  Cheryl utilizes her ability to engage both partners of the coupleship in a safe, nurturing, environment to view one another as each partners healer in life.  Through prescribed communication exercises, homework, and dialogue, Cheryl helps partners heal both their current distresses as well as childhood wounds by engaging in a healing process both in and out of her office.

 Life Coach/Spiritual Counseling/Goal Setting-  Cheryl aids clients in finding their true purpose and desire in life as well as discover and transform the parts of them that may sabatoge their desires  .  She utilizes EMDR to transform negative, limiting belief systems to positive ones.  Thus, behavior changes occur which lead to increased success and the ability to accomplish goals.   

 Family of Origin Work-  Cheryl uses a combination of Gestault and Jungian technigues, transpersonal psychology as well as EMDR to help the client meet, greet, and champion previously unconscious parts of their personalities that may still be carrying pain and negative belief systems from the past.  By assisting clients in honoring all parts of themselves and allowing them to express their feelings both current as well as past, she aids them in becoming truly whole.  

 Play Therapy-  Cheryl works with children as young as four years old to help resolve issues that may be budding in the development of children not expressing feelings.  Through creative play and the use of sandbox, drawing, singing, and brain balancing activities, Cheryl is able to help the child trust that he can share his feelings with one who can help and resolve inner turmoil.