Cherina Medina, LCSW, CSW

Cherina Medina is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and ADHD. Cherina brings 15 years of experience and a direct, down-to-earth style that mixes clear guidance with warmth and humor. She identifies as non-binary and works from Colorado, offering sessions in English.

Cherina uses practical talk therapy to help people notice unhelpful thought patterns and build everyday habits that make life easier. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions focused on each person's experience and priorities. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to teach specific skills for handling anxiety, impulsivity, and low mood.

Her background includes long experience in special education and work with people who have disabilities. That experience shapes how she explains things and offers tools. She also has training in trauma-informed care and sexual assault response, which guides how she responds to safety and pacing in sessions.

Cherina brings cultural perspective from her Native American heritage and can include storytelling, mindfulness, or prayer when a person wants that. Humor is part of how she works for many people - she believes laughing can be a helpful release alongside serious work. Sessions are intended to be collaborative and paced to each person's needs.

People who choose Cherina can expect straightforward conversations, concrete coping tools, and practice with thought and habit changes. Before booking, confirm current session options and scheduling details through the site.

How these approaches guide online work

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It breaks problems into small parts and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, and impulsivity.

Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens, reflects, and follows the client's lead so work stays relevant to their goals and values.

Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Cherina will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that fit the person's needs. They adjust pacing and techniques over time so the work feels useful and manageable.

Confirm which session formats are offered before booking because the biography does not specify formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, shorter check-ins can work during a lunch break, and sessions without video can reduce bandwidth needs. Licensed professionals can use these options to help people practice new thought patterns and daily habits between appointments.