Cheryl Scott, M.S., FL | Mind Diagnostics

Licensed

Online Counseling

(70 reviews)

M.S., LMHC Cheryl Scott

Provides online counseling through BetterHelp

Mental health conditions are real, common and treatable.

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Cheryl Scott is an experienced, licensed Mental Health Professional who specializes in affordable online therapy offered through our partner, BetterHelp.

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Licensing: M.S., LMHC Years in Practice: 25 State: Florida

Hello, my name is Cheryl Scott, and I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida, USA. I have 25 years of experience providing counseling and psychotherapy. My counseling approach is solution focused and team oriented. In the team approach, you and I form a team. You will be an active participant in your therapy. I will construct an individualized treatment plan for you, and you will make life changes according to your plan. You will learn and practice new coping skills. You will learn from targeted worksheets and thought provoking questions. I will teach you effective journaling and set a balanced life schedule. In addition, I will point you to helpful reading and video materials. Through this process you will discover your deeper self and find the courage to change. I use a holistic approach to treatment from a mind, body, and spirit perspective. I am a Christian and provide insight from a Christian perspective. If you are ready to change your life, I am here to help you. I use a broad variety of treatment techniques including, but not limited to: Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET). I treat a variety of conditions including, but not limited to: anxiety, self-esteem and body image issues, relationship problems, lack of life purpose, career changes, ending grudges with forgiveness therapy, grief at work, codependency, and creating work-life balance. You can work with me in many ways. You can meet with me for a 45 minute weekly live phone or chat session. You can also work with me asynchronously through written or audio messages. In the messaging portion of the Better Help app, you can discuss issues and do topical worksheets. My Weekly Live Session Schedule is on the Better Help app. Message me if you do not find a session time/day that works for you, and I will let you know what options exist. In the interim between sessions, you can use the Asynchronous Messaging at any time. Note however, responses could be up to 24 hours on weekends and holidays. Weekday responses are generally within 12 hours. If you find that you need urgent messaging options, or your schedule differs too much from mine, you can easily change counselors in Better Help to one that provides different options. If you are serious about a life change and are ready to work, contact me! My sincere regards, Cheryl Scott, MS LMHC Please note this is an online counseling platform and is not suitable for emergency situations. If you find yourself in an emergency, you should contact your local emergency services. In the USA, 911.

About online counseling

Online counseling allows you to receive care from an online mental health practitioner via phone, video chat, or instant messaging. It is convenient for those who may have trouble getting to or would prefer not to have in-person therapy appointments. Starting at $65 per week, online counseling is generally more affordable than in-person counseling. A study by researchers at University of California, Berkeley found that online counseling can be just as effective as face-to-face therapy while being more convenient, affordable, and accessible.

Issues: Stress Anxiety Relationship issues Self esteem Career difficulties Coping with life changes Family conflicts Trauma and abuse Grief Parenting issues Depression Coaching Compassion fatigue
Languages Spoken: English

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Cheryl is awesome. I’ve only had 2 sessions with her and she has already given me really solid tools to overcome my negative thinking patterns. She’s very professional and knows what she’s doing. I feel confident that I’m working with someone who can help me.

Cheryl Scott is a wise, dependable, compassionate voice of reason. She is a patient listener who guides with knowledge and experience. She does not pacify or coddle. She encourages the hard work that brings healing, peace and joy.

Cheryl Scott has truly helped me with my mental health and the concerns that arose. I am beyond grateful and thankful for her help throughout this difficult journey.

Cheryl has been amazing and so helpful, in just the first week. She immediately helped me identify the root cause of what I was experiencing from a Biblical perspective. She answers messages throughout the week, not just during scheduled appointments. You can tell she truly cares and wants to help.

Cheryl has helped a lot understand relationship dynamics and provided me with tools that are useful. :)

Cheryl is a soft light in a confusing world. She listens well and gently guides when needed. She has a wealth of knowledge and wisdom, but humbly imparts it while fully valuing everything I say. I am thankful for the help Cheryl has given me in navigating tough circumstances in my life. As Cheryl helps me to be a better me, she is helping everyone around me.

Cheryl has been so helpful.

Helps you really get to where you want to go

Cheryl was very helpful in guiding me through what I was going through. I highly recommend her!!

Cheryl is my first therapist and I am so glad and grateful I matched with her. The app is very easy to use making the calls this much more efficient. She has helped me organize my thoughts and find deeper meaning in situations that bother me or occupy my brain. I know I can trust being myself without ever any judgment and sharing my thoughts and concerns. Shes amazing!

Cheryl is a wonderful therapist. She is fantastic listener and offers advice and suggestions at the right time. She is not too quick to give feedback, she allows you the space to fully realize your thoughts. She also observes themes I continue to bring up and reminds me of them so I can see patterns in my thinking. She follows up between sessions and checks in. She has a very kind and comforting nature. She incorporates faith and a greater purpose for life. I thoroughly enjoy our sessions and value her roadmaps and advice.

Cheryl is amazing. I love how she ties in the Bible with her counseling. She’s a great reminder of what I need to work on and has a strong Christian base to navigate my issues.

Best therapist I have ever had. She has helped me tremendously

Cheryl is a true professional and has single-handedly helped me work through some tricky personal situations. I am grateful for Cheryl's wisdom and calm demeanor in successfully working through tough emotional events.

She’s awesome. I feel like someone is in my corner. She cares and listens and helps me stay the course.

I feel she has helped a lot. Thank you

Cheryl has been my saving grace. She gave me something I thought I’d never have again, my self worth.

She is the best therapist I've worked with and I am very happy with her skill and expertise. It is so good to have her in my corner to help me learn new ways of coping and how to create my own happiness. 10/10!

Excellent therapist and very responsive

When I joined BetterHelp, I was very skeptical about starting therapy based on the prior experience I had. My prior therapy experience was my own monologue with a therapist who occasionally nodded his head, asked me how something made me feel, and told me what a great job I did analyzing the situation. I got nothing out of it. I'd watch movies where they'd portray therapists having a dialogue with their patient and sharing some mind-blowing deep ideas. "I wish I could experience something like that" I thought. "Meh, only in the movies." My wish was granted with Cheryl. What I loved about her is that she is straightforward. And she is deep. And she is real. I'm a deep individual, so I'm not looking for anything superficial to make sure that my feelings don't get hurt. We all have problems and I think its safe to say that we're looking for solutions to them, that's why we're in therapy. Cheryl helped me reconnect with my feminine power and I was able to turn my life around. Keep in mind, you're responsible for turning your life around, not your therapist. They can put you on the right track and that, in itself, is tremendous.

Cheryl has helped me navigate the last few months and I’ve gained so much clarity working with her. Thank you for your call peaceful energy and all of the tools you provided

Cheryl is a true professional. She has helped me work through a lot of difficult personal and professional situations with calm, grace, clarity, and success.

Very good at working to provide tools to manage stress and empathetic.

Cheryl was very knowledgeable, kind and made me feel comfortable while talking with her. I would definitely reach out to her again if needed.

Sometimes it is hard to connect, click or trust a therapist, but Cheryl makes me feel comfortable to open up and she gives me the tools I need to achieve my therapy goals.

Cheryl is extremely responsive, calming and you can tell that she genuinely cares about her clients. I have recommended BetterHelp to multiple friends thanks to my sessions with Cheryl!

Cheryl helped me through a difficult time, which I am very grateful for. She provided me with several tools to manage my anxiety and impulsive behavior. They are easy to use and if I practice them, they work! However, I didn’t find our sessions to be conducive for my long term mental health. She became judgemental of my partner and didn’t seem neutral to the situation. For me, Cheryl was able to help me through acute anxiety, but I didn’t find her techniques effective for relationship issues. To be fair, I had only sought her help for the anxiety, not relationship help.

Cheryl has been amazing and provides extremely helpful feedback. She is not at all judgemental or impatient with me and my explanations and questions. She is kind and reaches out often. She reached out to check on me for the anniversary of my dads passing, remembering when it was. It meant so much to me that she paid attention and cared enough to reach out first.

Cheryl listens to my challenges and helps me to see how I can help myself!! She is kind and calm and helps me to be at ease!

She is very pleasant and nice to talk to. She is also very professional

She great she responds quickly

Cheryl is wonderful and understanding. She finds ways to help you personally develop and grow. I would recommend her to anyone.

Cheryl listens, and responds with sound advice. She is down to Earth and respects her patients.

Cheryl identified the core of my issues like no other therapist has done before. She has helped me a ton with understanding and making peace with my past trauma.

I LOVE Cheryl. She has taught me so many different coping mechanisms, and listens to all of my concerns. I look forward to my weekly sessions!

Cheryl is thorough, kind, and patient.

Cheryl has been such an incredible support in my journey. Her expertise and calm demeanor have allowed me to make incredible progress over the course of the past weeks and months. I would highly recommend Cheryl as a professional therapist.

From my first session with Cheryl, I knew she understood me. She is so easy to talk to and it is clear that no judgement is being placed on my situation or on me. Her tone is so soothing and calming and I really like that. I really am happy that I finally decided to seek therapy but even more grateful that Cheryl is my therapist.

At my darkest, Cheryl guided me through. Very encouraging and trust worthy. Excellent at communicating and she really took the time to understand my perspective. I felt heard and seen in the deepest way. Truly an incredible therapist.

Good listen and offered great tools to help me cope.

Since my first session with Cheryl Scott, I felt at ease and very happy that we'd be working together. Cheryl is very understanding and a great listener. I feel like we are working together as a team. With each session, I learn something new and build blocks to strengthen my positive thoughts, tools, and action steps to continue living an enriched life.

Cheryl is compassionate, profound, and marvelous at shaping my mind to connect to who I am becoming to be. She has helped me work through my amygdala triggering and gotten me out of my depression, and how to handle difficult or stressful situations. It is an honor to have her as my therapist.

Cheryl is incredibly supportive and has the best advice for how to manage the issues I have and be able to move in a different direction when I have been doing things wrong in the past. I would highly recommend her!

After working with Cheryl for a year I feel like a new woman. She has helped me overcome many hurdles and helped me look at things in a more positive perspective. She is amazing and I would recommend her to anyone who is suffering with any mental health issues.

She is easy to talk to and has an understanding of my situation and concerns

Cheryl has managed to take me from a very dark place in my life and help me bring inner peace no matter what life throws at me.

Cheryl is extremely professional, insightful, caring, and attentive. She continues to provide me with resources and support to help me work through various emotions and circumstances. I would recommend Cheryl to anyone who needs a kind, thoughtful, knowledgeable, and attentive therapist.

Cheryl has been a beacon of light for me. Since I started with her, I feel like my old self again.

Cheryl's guidance, kindness, intelligence, and responsiveness has changed me as a person. Slightly last the 6 month mark, I can confidently say I behave, respond, and regard life differently, with confidence and trust in myself. Cheryl's impact on my relationship to my family has caused a ripple effect of positive outcomes to them as well, and healed things I didn't even realize were impacting me in other realms of my life. I feel clear, confident, and ready to take on all sorts of things, as well as understand and forgive myself and others, thanks to Cheryl's incredible insights, resources, and sessions. I have had many therapists in my life, but she is by far the most genuine, impactful, and kind one I've ever known: she is gold.

Cheryl is so lovely! Really been enjoying my therapy sessions with her.

Cheryl is an amazing therapist! A great listener and always gives really good advice.

I just sent Cheryl some feedback, and you are welcome to use that if she agrees to share it with you. I would cut and paste it into this text box, but I'm unable to do that. Overall, she's great. Thanks for asking.

I am not very good at writing reviews and most often just ignore these requests. In this case however I would like to say that I was in crisis and Cheeyl made me feel safe to open up. She gave me options for multiple tools some worked for me and some did not. I never felt pressure to do anything that was not working. I very much appreciate her time helping me.

Cheryl really understood the struggles I was going through and had many different resources and ideas for me to try to better myself and my mental state. She changed how my thinking was and was very professional but also extremely friendly and understanding of everything I put forward. She was great at encouraging me to do more things for myself and how to do them. She is very experienced and truly knows how to help.

Love her!

Cheryl is wonderful. She's experienced in online counseling certainly.

She’s wonderful

I’ve only had two phone sessions with Cheryl, and she’s already helped me a lot. I look forward to continuing our sessions

I have worked with Cheryl for only a short period and I am very impressed with her quick response times and expertise to assist me in understanding myself and things in my life better. If you are prepared to put in effort and challenge yourself I believe that her services would be of great help.

Cheryl has been great and very comfortable to talk to. She's helped me so much to dig deeper into the things I've been working on and has given some great suggestions to improve my situation. I also appreciate the worksheets she's provided to help me realize more things about myself that I didn't realize before. Overall, speaking with her has given me more clarity in the direction I want to go in and I really appreciate it.

Cheryl has been so helpful so far. I like the perspective she brings and helps you to question different things and ask yourself some questions that help you understand your problems or how to move forwards. Cheryl is fantastic

Cheryl is very empathetic. During our sessions I can tell by her voice that she deeply understands the emotions I am experiencing. She offers a plethora of ideas in how to accept and process trauma and to create a life of internal peace.

Wise counsellor!

Cheryl has helped me with my fears and anxieties and allowed me to find ways to see things in a more positive light. She listens and understands what im going through without judgement, and gives me multiple outlooks and resources to help me work on my mental health.

Cheryl is wonderful. I have been with her for about 3 months now. She is always accommodating of my needs, listens, and allows to me to speak...even when I ramble. I have full confidence in her professional abilities and take seriously her recommendations. She knows her stuff.

Cheryl is very professional, responsive, thoughtful and supportive. Positive experience so far. Cheryl is easy to speak with and checks in frequently.

Eccellent help and very pleasant and knowledgable counsellor

Cheryl has been a very good and patient listener.

Cheryl is warm and friendly, and also very attentive. You can tell she really cares and enjoys what she does. I wasn't so sure about online therapy but she changed my mind completely! I look forward to our sessions!

Cheryl is kind, patient and understanding and provides valuable feedback and materials relevant to working through different situations. I would highly recommend her anyone.

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