Cheryl Edwards is licensed in Arkansas as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Technology -Assisted Counselor/Supervisor and as a Supervisor for LACs. My license number is P0311044 and can be verified through the Arkansas State Board of Examiners at telephone number (870) 901-7055 or through the Arkansas State Board Examiners.

Certificates:

• Certified in Thanatology: Death, Dying and Bereavement by the Association for Death Education and Counseling
• Critical Incident Stress Management: Group Crisis Intervention
• School Crisis Response Training/Critical Incident Stress Management
• Clinically Certified Juvenile Treatment Specialist

Professional Associations:

• American Counseling Association
• American Mental Health Counselors Association
• Marriage and Family Therapy Association
• American Association of Christian Counselors

Education:
2000 – Masters of Science in Counseling with emphasis in Marriage and Family
John Brown University, Siloam Springs, AR
1997 – Bachelors of Science in Liberal Arts with emphasis in Psychology
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Experience:
1999 – 2005 Solution Focused Counseling, Ft. Smith, AR
Provided outpatient counseling for adolescents, adults and marital.

2000 – 2003 Harbor View Mercy Hospital, Ft. Smith, AR
Provided inpatient and outpatient counseling to children, adolescents,
and adults in individual, marital, family and group therapy.

2003 – 2004 St. Edward’s Mercy Behavioral Health, Ft. Smith, AR
Provided inpatient and outpatient counseling to children, adolescents, and adults in individual, marital, family and group therapy.

2004 – 2006 Perspectives Behavioral Health Management, Barling, AR
Provided outpatient counseling to children, adolescents, and adults in individual, marital, family and group therapy.

2004 – Present Preferred Counseling – President/Owner, Ft. Smith, AR
Provides outpatient counseling to children, adolescents, and adults in individual, marital, family and group therapy.

2006 – Present Arkansas Counseling Associates, Fort Smith, AR
Provides outpatient counseling to children, adolescents, and adults in individual, family and group therapy.