Work with Cheryl Kennedy MacDonald, registered psychotherapist, published author, and award-winning women’s wellness specialist with over 20 years of experience. In person in Singapore and online globally.
I’m Cheryl, a registered psychotherapist, published women’s health expert and yoga master specialising in supporting women through life’s most significant transitions. Born in Scotland and based in Asia for over a decade, I work with women in Singapore and online globally who are navigating motherhood, menopause, relationship trauma, narcissistic abuse, family-of-origin wounds, complex parental relationships, relocation, expat life, ADHD, neurodivergence, and the long-term impact of emotional over-functioning.
My person-centred, integrative approach is trauma-informed, feminist, and grounded in evidence-based psychotherapy. This includes including ACT, CBT and psychodynamic therapy, alongside somatic and mindfulness-based practices. My work is also informed by Coherence Therapy and Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy, helping us gently uncover the deeper emotional patterns, protective beliefs and early learnings that may be shaping present-day struggles.
Together, we support nervous-system regulation and allow you to reconnect with your body. Rebuilding self-trust, is intergral to our work so that you can move forward with more confidence and a stronger sense of yourself.
Many of the women I work with have experienced long-term emotional strain or relationship trauma, including narcissistic abuse or growing up with emotionally immature parents. Others come to therapy during midlife or significant life transitions, noticing patterns of self-doubt, emotional overwhelm, or a loss of identity that no longer make sense.
If any of this feels familiar, you’re not broken and you’re not alone. What you’re describing is usually the result of years of adapting, just about managing, and putting yourself last. Therapy gives you the space to stop doing that, even just for an hour a week.
My approach weaves together psychotherapy, nervous-system work, and mind-body practice. Real change happens in the body and mind which is why it’s so important to respect both. Together we work at a pace that feels right for you, building self-trust, emotional steadiness, and a clearer sense of who you actually are underneath all of it.
My work is trauma-informed, feminist and integrative, utilising a range of evidence-based modalities. I work this way because different women need different tools and because the most lasting change tends to happen when we work with both the patterns in your thinking and the ones held in your nervous system.
Therapy is not about fixing you. It’s about understanding what’s been shaping your responses, your relationships, and your sense of self and giving you what you need to respond differently when you’re ready.