Cherith McIlroy

Cherith McIlroy is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage anger, stress and life changes. She offers calm, attentive listening and aims to create a supportive space where clients can talk through strong feelings and painful memories. Cherith presents herself as emotionally available and works alongside people to find clearer ways forward.

She practises from a relationship-based standpoint, drawing on attachment and client-centred ideas to build trust. Cherith uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and solution-focused techniques to help people spot unhelpful patterns and try small, practical changes. She also includes psychodynamic thinking to look at how past experiences shape present reactions.

Cherith has 3.5 years of professional experience and holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Her work has included stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem problems, bereavement including loss by suicide, family conflicts, complex trauma, PTSD and childhood sexual abuse.

She supports people dealing with parenting strain, compassion fatigue and relationship difficulties. Other areas she pays attention to include abandonment, attachment problems, control and communication issues, dissociation and forgiveness. Sessions aim to increase self-awareness and practical coping skills.

The approach is collaborative and paced to the individual. Cherith encourages clients to use their own strengths and courage to make steady changes and work towards a more manageable everyday life.

How Cherith's approaches translate to online work

Cherith draws on attachment-based and client-centred ideas to build a trusting therapeutic relationship. Attachment-based work helps people look at relationship patterns and how early bonds affect current feelings, which can be useful for anger and family conflict. Client-centred counselling emphasises being heard and respected, and this creates space to speak about painful experiences without rush.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which focuses on spotting thinking and behaviour patterns that keep distress going and trying small experiments to change them. CBT can help with anxiety, sleeping problems, low mood and managing angry reactions. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work; Cherith will discuss goals and preferences and together decide what feels most useful for each person.

Practical benefits of online work can include fitting sessions into a busy week and avoiding travel time, which makes regular meetings easier to maintain. Online sessions can be easier to join when someone needs a shorter check-in or cannot be on camera for the whole time. Session formats are not detailed in the biography, so please confirm current session options before booking to ensure they fit your routine.