Cheryl Tan-Bell

Cheryl Tan-Bell is a counsellor who supports people navigating relationship strain, grief, trauma and big life changes. She aims to make the first step feel doable and straightforward for someone already feeling overwhelmed.

Cheryl works from an attachment-based, trauma-informed and client-centred perspective. She focuses on helping people speak openly about difficult feelings and unsafe patterns. The goal is to reduce shame and build practical ways of relating that feel more restful.

Sessions typically involve talking through recent events and long-standing patterns. Cheryl helps people identify how early attachments influence current relationships. She also offers tools from cognitive approaches to manage anxiety and intense emotions in the moment.

Cheryl has practised in Australia for 15 years and holds PACFA. That experience informs how she supports people facing grief, separation and family conflict. She brings a calm, steady style and pays attention to what matters most to the person in front of her.

People working with Cheryl can expect a collaborative approach. She helps set clear, realistic goals and checks in about progress. If the focus becomes practical skills, emotional processing or communication change, she adjusts the work to match the client’s needs.

How Cheryl’s approaches translate to online work

Attachment-based work looks at how early connection patterns affect current relationships and helps people notice and change repeating cycles. It is useful for trust issues, abandonment fears and improving emotional closeness. Client-centred therapy places the person’s goals at the centre and relies on empathic listening to help someone make sense of their experience and find their own direction. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) offers concrete skills to spot unhelpful thinking and change behaviours that increase anxiety or depression.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Cheryl works with each person to choose which methods feel most helpful for their goals and situation. That decision happens collaboratively and can shift as progress is made.

The therapist’s biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm available options before booking. Online work can make appointments easier to fit around work and family life, reduce travel time and allow more frequent short check-ins when needed. It also makes it possible to continue therapy through big life changes such as relocation or busy schedules, while keeping the focus on practical coping, emotional processing and communication skills.