Cheryl Patterson, LMFT

LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) in Minnesota with four years of clinical experience, Cheryl Patterson helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and life changes. She offers individual counseling, couples work, and parenting support, and brings experience from nursing and addiction recovery settings to her practice.

Cheryl draws on Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person’s concerns and goals. She uses Motivational Interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change. Narrative Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy guide conversations toward practical steps and new ways of seeing problems.

Before becoming an LMFT she worked many years as a registered nurse in labor, delivery, postpartum, and the nursery, and served as a nurse manager. She also spent two years in adult psychiatric nursing and three years at Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge, where she provided counseling in a recovery setting.

Cheryl later launched and supervises a peer-directed recovery house for six men. That work informs her approach to addiction and recovery-related concerns. She identifies as a parent of three adult children and integrates spiritual perspectives into her counseling when relevant to a client.

Sessions focus on clear goals and workable strategies. Conversations tend to be direct and practical, with attention to relationships, communication, and day-to-day coping. People seeking help with fertility, postpartum issues, career questions, or midlife concerns may find her background relevant.

Therapeutic approaches used for remote work