Cheronda Pinkard , LCSW

Cheronda Pinkard is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who offers compassionate, goal-oriented support for individuals and families navigating anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, trauma, and other life stresses. With three years of clinical experience, she brings a strengths-based, collaborative approach that centers the client as the expert in their own life while offering practical tools to foster change.

Cheronda holds a master in social work and a master in child development, qualifications that support her work with both adults and children across a range of concerns including parenting, intimacy-related issues, grief, addictions, ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, and career-related stress. She draws on evidence-informed methods to help clients develop strategies for coping, managing emotions, and improving communication within relationships.

In sessions she emphasizes active listening, empathy, and clear goal-setting. Clients work together with Cheronda to identify priorities and build skills that create more stability and wellbeing over time. Her practice aims to balance practical problem solving with attention to underlying emotional patterns so that progress feels meaningful and sustainable.

Cheronda is experienced in supporting people through major life transitions and ongoing struggles, and she tailors interventions to each person s needs and goals, helping them move toward greater calm, connection, and confidence.

CBT and Solution-Focused Support Delivered Online

Cheronda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT is practical and skills-based, often used to address anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching coping strategies and problem-solving techniques.

She also employs Solution-Focused Therapy, which emphasizes clients strengths and short-term goals to create measurable change. This approach is useful for people seeking concrete improvements in relationships, parenting, career concerns, or coping with life transitions.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the process. Cheronda works collaboratively with clients and licensed professionals to determine which methods best match a client s goals, preferences, and the challenges they bring to sessions. Together they set priorities and adjust strategies as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives - sessions can be held by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit care into different schedules and locations, while enabling consistent, ongoing contact with a therapist to support steady progress.