About Sharina
Sharina Anderson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Virginia. She has seven years of professional experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood swings, and ADHD-related concerns. Sharina centers respect and collaboration in sessions and acknowledges the courage it takes to start therapy.
She sees each person as the expert on their own life and works from that place. Sessions focus on practical steps and clear goals. Sharina helps people notice patterns, try small changes, and build skills that make daily life feel more manageable.
Background and approach
Her approach is straightforward and down-to-earth. Conversations aim to reduce overwhelm and improve coping with grief, trauma, addiction, and life transitions. She also supports people dealing with self-esteem, relationship strain, sexual identity questions, and career stress.
Sharina pays attention to how early attachment and abandonment issues show up in current relationships. She addresses impulsivity, dissociation, and codependency with concrete strategies and paced exploration. She also helps people work through guilt, shame, and the challenge of building self-love.
Sessions may include planning for better sleep, managing eating concerns, or working through seasonal mood changes. People who are navigating parenting strain, compassion fatigue, or young adult issues can expect practical coaching alongside therapeutic conversation. The aim is steady progress, one clear step at a time.
Practical approaches and online care that fit your life
Brief explanations of a couple of evidence-based techniques used in sessions can help set expectations. One common approach focuses on building concrete coping skills for stress and anxiety, such as step-by-step plans for managing overwhelm, improving sleep, and reducing impulsive behaviors. These skills are useful for daily routines and ADHD-related struggles. Another approach centers on exploring attachment and abandonment patterns to understand how past relationships affect current ones; this helps people change recurring relationship dynamics and reduce isolation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and which strategies feel most helpful. Together they decide what to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping sessions collaborative and goal-oriented.
Online therapy offers flexibility that fits busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper exchanges, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for quick check-ins or when typing out thoughts is easier. These options make it simpler to schedule regular sessions and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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