About Cheri
Cheri Sinnott Springer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Illinois who brings 15 years of clinical experience to her practice. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, ADHD, and a range of life transitions.
Background and approach
Her background also includes attention to eating and sleeping concerns, intimacy and parenting difficulties, workplace issues, and identity-related questions such as LGBT matters and women's issues. Her approach blends practical tools with goal-oriented work, drawing mainly from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Solution-Focused Therapy to help clients identify patterns, test small changes, and build clearer steps forward.
She also emphasizes communication skills and connects clients with resources outside sessions when appropriate. In addition to clinical practice, Cheri teaches Introduction to Counseling and Introduction to Social Work at a community college, authored the course text, and serves as an instructor for licensure exam preparation.
She has served on the board of the National Association of Social Workers and earned a Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis.
Cheri offers services in English and provides care through a variety of online session formats.
Practical Approaches for Online Change
CBT focuses on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that contribute to distress; it uses structured exercises and skill-building to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, or unhelpful coping habits. Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes small, achievable steps and leverages clients' existing strengths to quickly move toward concrete goals, making it useful for life transitions, career concerns, and relationship challenges.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to assess needs, preferences, and goals, then adjusts techniques over time so the plan fits what the client hopes to accomplish. This shared decision-making helps ensure therapy stays targeted and relevant.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility and accessibility for different schedules and communication styles. These formats allow for consistent, ongoing work from wherever the client is located in Illinois, making it easier to maintain momentum and apply therapeutic tools between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English