Raquel Cherry , LICSW, LCSW

Raquel Cherry is a licensed clinical social worker with nine years of professional experience who works with adults and families to address a wide range of life challenges. She holds the credentials LICSW and LCSW - LICSW indicates Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and LCSW indicates Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and practices from a place of respect, sensitivity, and compassion.

Her background includes supporting people with stress and anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, and intimacy-related concerns. She also helps clients navigate relationship and family conflicts, parenting questions, blended family issues, first responder challenges, and the transitions that accompany young adulthood and life purpose exploration. Additional areas of focus include communication problems, financial stress, self-love, women's issues, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.

Raquel adapts conversations and treatment plans to each person’s unique situation, combining client-centered listening with structured techniques as appropriate. She frames the work as a collaborative process that empowers clients to identify goals and take meaningful steps toward change. Seeking therapy is a courageous first move, and Raquel aims to provide steady support and practical tools throughout the journey.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Support and Change

Raquel Cherry draws on client-centered therapy to create a respectful and empathetic space where each person’s goals and experiences shape the work. This approach emphasizes understanding the client’s perspective and collaborating to identify meaningful outcomes, useful for relationship issues, life transitions, and identity concerns.

She also integrates cognitive behavioral therapy, a practical method that highlights connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers tools to reduce anxiety, manage depression, and change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness therapy is used alongside these approaches to help clients develop present-moment awareness and self-regulation skills that can reduce reactivity and improve coping.

Finding the right combination of techniques is part of the therapeutic process, and Raquel works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they monitor progress and adjust the plan as needed.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for busy schedules, geographic limitations, and varying comfort levels with technology. These options make it easier to attend regularly, access consistent support, and continue therapeutic work even when life demands change.