FAQs
Who does Cherilyn Schutze work with?
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Cherilyn Schutze provides online therapy for women age 40 and older who live in Texas. Many of her clients are capable, compassionate women who are accustomed to caring for everyone else but struggle to offer themselves the same understanding and support.
Clients often come to therapy because they feel overwhelmed, anxious, emotionally exhausted, disconnected from themselves, or frustrated by patterns they have been unable to change on their own.
What issues does Cherilyn Schutze specialize in?
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What type of therapist is Cherilyn Schutze?
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What is attachment-focused therapy?
What can I expect during the first therapy session?
Does Cherilyn accept insurance?
How often will I attend therapy?
Cherilyn specializes in helping women work through:
Anxiety and chronic worry
Trauma and post-traumatic stress
Grief and significant loss
Childhood attachment wounds
People-pleasing
Codependency
Low self-worth
Harsh self-criticism
Relationship patterns
Difficulty setting boundaries
Major life transitions
Feeling responsible for everyone else
Repeating patterns that no longer serve them
Therapy is tailored to each client’s experiences, needs, and personal goals.
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Does Cherilyn offer online therapy in Texas?
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Yes. Cherilyn offers secure telehealth therapy to clients located anywhere in Texas.
Online therapy allows you to attend sessions from a private, comfortable location without traveling to an office. You must be physically located in Texas at the time of your appointment.
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What is EMDR therapy?
Can therapy help with anxiety?
Do I need to have a mental health diagnosis to start therapy?
You will need:
A reliable internet connection
A phone, tablet, or computer with a camera and microphone
A private location where you feel comfortable speaking
A location within the state of Texas during the session
Using headphones and silencing notifications can also help create greater privacy and focus.
Therapy sessions are confidential, with certain exceptions required by law and professional ethics.
Cherilyn will explain confidentiality and its limits before treatment begins. Exceptions can include situations involving imminent danger, suspected abuse or neglect, or circumstances in which records are legally required to be released.
Telehealth sessions are conducted through a secure platform designed for confidential healthcare communication.
How much does therapy cost?
Does Cherilyn offer in-person therapy?
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Does Cherilyn only work with women who have experienced trauma?
What do I need for a telehealth therapy appointment?
How long will I need to be in therapy?
You can reach us anytime via our contact page or email. We aim to respond quickly, usually within one business day.
Cherilyn’s approach is warm, compassionate, active, and educational. She believes you are the expert on your own life and that therapy should help you understand yourself—not make you feel as though you need to be “fixed.”
Together, you may explore where your beliefs, coping strategies, relationship patterns, and emotional responses originated. The goal is not simply to reduce symptoms temporarily, but to help you understand why certain patterns keep appearing and develop healthier ways of thinking, coping, communicating, and relating to yourself.
Humor may also have a place in the process. Therapy can involve difficult work, but it does not have to feel cold, clinical, or impersonal.
Cherilyn Schutze is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas. She is attachment-focused, EMDR-trained, and a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. She also has advanced training in the treatment of anxiety and grief.
Her professional background includes private practice as well as clinical experience supporting patients experiencing psychiatric crises in hospital and emergency-care settings.
Attachment-focused therapy explores how your earliest relationships and emotional experiences may continue to influence the way you see yourself, relate to others, respond to conflict, and experience safety in relationships.
Unmet emotional needs in childhood can sometimes contribute to adult patterns such as people-pleasing, fear of abandonment, difficulty trusting others, perfectionism, codependency, or believing that your needs are less important than everyone else’s.
Attachment-focused therapy can help you understand these patterns and develop a more secure and compassionate relationship with yourself and others.
EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is a structured therapeutic approach used to help people process distressing memories and experiences that continue to affect their thoughts, emotions, relationships, or physical responses.
EMDR does not require you to repeatedly describe every detail of a traumatic experience. The process is paced carefully and begins with establishing trust, emotional safety, and coping resources.
Cherilyn is EMDR-trained and integrates EMDR when it is clinically appropriate for the client.
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Yes. Childhood wounds do not always come from one obvious traumatic event. A person may have grown up in a family that appeared loving or stable while still experiencing emotional neglect, inconsistency, criticism, parentification, pressure to perform, or a lack of emotional safety.
Therapy can help you understand the impact of what happened, what did not happen, and what you learned you had to do to receive love, approval, or security.
You do not have to label your childhood as “bad” for your experiences to deserve attention and healing.
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Can therapy help with childhood trauma even if I had a “good” childhood?
Can therapy help me stop people-pleasing?
What is codependency?
Can therapy help with grief years after a loss?
Is online therapy effective?
Does Cherilyn provide crisis or emergency services?
How do I schedule a consultation with Cherilyn?
Therapy can help you understand why people-pleasing developed and what emotional purpose it has served.
For many women, people-pleasing began as a way to maintain connection, avoid conflict, earn approval, or feel safe. Although it may once have been protective, it can eventually lead to resentment, exhaustion, anxiety, weak boundaries, and feeling disconnected from your own wants and needs.
Therapy can help you practice setting boundaries, tolerating other people’s reactions, identifying your own needs, and making choices that honor who you are.
Codependency is a pattern in which your emotional well-being becomes overly dependent on another person’s feelings, choices, needs, or behavior.
You may feel responsible for keeping others happy, preventing conflict, solving their problems, or protecting them from consequences. Over time, this can cause you to neglect your own needs and lose a sense of where another person ends and you begin.
Therapy can help you recognize codependent patterns, strengthen boundaries, and develop healthier, more balanced relationships.
Yes. Therapy can help you understand what activates your anxiety, recognize the thoughts and beliefs that reinforce it, and develop healthier ways to respond.
Treatment may address chronic worry, overthinking, perfectionism, fear of disappointing others, difficulty relaxing, physical tension, trouble sleeping, or feeling as though something bad is always about to happen.
Rather than only teaching you how to manage symptoms, Cherilyn also helps you explore why anxiety developed and what may be keeping it in place.
Yes. There is no expiration date on grief.
Grief often changes over time rather than simply disappearing. A loss may feel especially present around anniversaries, holidays, family milestones, health changes, new relationships, or other transitions.
Therapy can provide a place to speak honestly about your loss, understand how it has changed you, and find ways to carry both grief and hope without feeling pressured to “move on.”
No. You do not need to identify as a trauma survivor or have a formal diagnosis to benefit from therapy.
Some clients begin therapy because they feel stuck, exhausted, overly self-critical, disconnected, or unhappy with recurring relationship patterns. Others are navigating grief, anxiety, a life transition, or the realization that the coping strategies that once helped them survive are no longer helping them thrive.
No. You do not need to arrive with a diagnosis or know exactly what is wrong.
It is common to begin therapy knowing only that something feels off, that life has become harder than it should be, or that the same issues keep repeating. Part of the therapeutic process is understanding what you are experiencing and identifying what you would like to change.
The first session is an opportunity for you and Cherilyn to begin getting to know one another. You may discuss what brought you to therapy, what has been happening in your life, relevant personal history, and what you hope will change.
You do not have to tell your entire story at once. The process moves at a pace that supports safety, trust, and genuine connection.
You will also have an opportunity to ask questions and discuss what working together may look like.
The relationship between you and your therapist is an important part of effective therapy. You may be a good fit for Cherilyn’s approach if you are looking for a therapist who is compassionate and supportive but also actively engaged in the process.
Cherilyn may be a good fit if you want to:
Understand why certain patterns continue
Explore the roots of anxiety or self-criticism
Heal attachment wounds
Process trauma or grief
Build healthier boundaries
Stop taking responsibility for everyone else
Develop greater self-understanding and self-compassion
A complimentary consultation can help you decide whether her style, experience, and services feel right for you.
Online therapy can be an effective and convenient form of mental health treatment for many people. It offers the ability to meet with your therapist from a familiar environment and can make consistent attendance easier for clients with demanding schedules, caregiving responsibilities, mobility concerns, or limited access to specialized therapists nearby.
The effectiveness of therapy also depends on factors such as the relationship with your therapist, the treatment approach, your needs, and your participation in the process.
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How do I know whether Cherilyn is the right therapist for me?
Are therapy sessions confidential?
Cherilyn’s practice is private-pay and does not bill insurance directly. Depending on your insurance plan, you may be eligible for partial reimbursement for out-of-network mental health services.
You can contact your insurance company and ask about your out-of-network behavioral health benefits, deductible, reimbursement rate, and requirements for submitting claims.
Please contact the practice to confirm current fees and available reimbursement support before scheduling.
Please contact Cherilyn Schutze Counseling for the current session fee and payment information. You will receive clear information about the cost of services before beginning treatment.
Clients who are uninsured or who choose not to use insurance may also request a Good Faith Estimate of expected charges as provided under the No Surprises Act.
Many clients begin with weekly sessions because consistency can help establish trust and maintain momentum. The appropriate frequency depends on your needs, goals, schedule, and stage of treatment.
As you progress, you and Cherilyn may discuss whether a different frequency would be appropriate.
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There is no single timeline that applies to everyone. The length of therapy depends on your goals, history, symptoms, life circumstances, and the depth of the issues you would like to address.
Some people seek support for a specific concern or transition. Others choose longer-term therapy to address trauma, attachment wounds, grief, relationship patterns, or deeply held beliefs about themselves.
Cherilyn will work collaboratively with you and discuss your progress throughout the process.
Is faith part of Cherilyn’s counseling approach?
Cherilyn respects each client’s beliefs, values, and personal worldview. Faith or spirituality can be incorporated into therapy when it is meaningful to the client, but it is not imposed.
You are welcome to discuss whether and how you would like your spiritual beliefs to be included in your therapeutic work.
How quickly will I receive a response?
Cherilyn Schutze Counseling is an outpatient therapy practice and is not an emergency or crisis-response service.
If you are in immediate danger, believe you may harm yourself or someone else, or are experiencing a mental health emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room. You may also call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
Do not use the website contact form for an urgent or life-threatening situation.
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You can request a complimentary 15-minute consultation through the contact form or scheduling link on the Cherilyn Schutze Counseling website.
The consultation gives you an opportunity to briefly explain what you are looking for, ask questions about the practice, and determine whether working together feels like a good fit.
Cherilyn Schutze Counseling generally responds to website inquiries within 48 business hours.
Messages received during weekends, holidays, or outside regular business hours may receive a response on the next business day.