Cheryl Smart, NCPS
4 years in practice
Cheryl Smart is a counsellor who uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside other practical approaches to help people manage strong feelings and rebuild trust in themselves.
License and registration
- NCPS
- NCS23-04525 · expires October 2026
- Years in practice
- 4
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Cheryl
Cheryl Smart is a counsellor who uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside other practical approaches to help people manage strong feelings and rebuild trust in themselves. She works from a calm, respectful stance and keeps things straightforward. Cheryl has four years of experience supporting people in schools, healthcare settings and online.
In sessions she focuses on day-to-day problems like stress, anxiety and low mood. She also helps with trauma and abuse, grief, relationship struggles, intimacy concerns and parenting stress.
Background and approach
Cheryl supports people dealing with long-term health issues, body image worries, career strain and challenges linked to neurodiversity. Her way of working is person-centred and collaborative. Conversations are shaped around what matters most to the client, and goals are practical and manageable.
Cheryl draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot thought patterns that cause extra upset, and on acceptance and commitment strategies to build values-led action. People can expect straightforward language and a focus on small, useful steps between sessions. Cheryl adapts the pace to each person’s needs and checks in on progress regularly.
She aims to make therapy feel like a series of achievable conversations rather than a daunting task. Cheryl holds NCPS as a listed credential and offers sessions in English to people in the United Kingdom and internationally. Online work is part of her practice, with several formats available to suit different needs.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Cheryl lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Cheryl names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Cheryl uses therapeutic approaches online
Cheryl combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ideas to help people feel understood and act on what matters to them. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps name and process strong feelings so relationships with self and others feel clearer and safer. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on values and small actions, helping people live more in line with what they care about despite difficult thoughts. Attachment-based work looks at early patterns that shape how people connect and helps build more supported ways of relating.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Cheryl will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and choose methods together. That way sessions stay practical and tailored rather than fixed to a single method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls suit deeper conversations and visual connection, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works well for brief check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between meetings. These options aim to make therapy more flexible so it can fit around work, family and day-to-day life.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Cheryl help with?
Cheryl supports people with stress, anxiety, depression and bipolar mood issues. She also helps with trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside client-centred work and cognitive behavioural ideas. Sessions are collaborative and focused on practical steps you can use between meetings.
What experience does she bring?
Cheryl has four years of counselling experience gained in schools, healthcare settings and online platforms. That mix informs how she adapts sessions to different life situations.
Where is Cheryl based and what are her credentials?
She is based in the United Kingdom and lists NCPS as a credential. Sessions are offered in English.
Can I work with her from abroad?
International clients are accepted, and sessions can be arranged across time zones in English.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different schedules and preferences.
How are fees handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist arrangements; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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