About Sharlene
Sharlene Duplessis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings 16 years of practice to her work. She focuses on trauma, mood concerns, anxiety, and ADHD-related struggles. Sharlene uses down-to-earth language and straightforward steps so parents and individuals can understand the process quickly.
She centers sessions on the client's experience and meets people where they are. That means listening first, then trying practical skills that can be used right away.
Background and approach
Sharlene helps people notice small successes and build from them instead of waiting for big breakthroughs. Her background includes long-term outpatient work with people dealing with trauma, depression, bipolar symptoms, and anger. She has worked with issues that come from family patterns, blended family dynamics, and life transitions.
Her years in practice shaped a calm, steady way of helping people face hard feelings and life changes. Sharlene draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking, dialectical skills to manage intense emotions, and EMDR strategies for processing traumatic memories. She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused steps to set realistic goals and track progress.
In sessions she tends to break skills into small, practical steps. Parents and individuals will find clear suggestions for managing stress, improving communication, and building routines that support focus and mood. The overall aim is steady progress and clearer next steps, one day at a time.
Practical approaches for online care
Sharlene commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches simple tools to change patterns that worsen mood or focus. Dialectical behavior therapy offers emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to manage intense feelings and conflict.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing as a trauma-informed option to help process difficult memories. EMDR involves guided processing aimed at reducing the emotional charge of painful experiences and can be adapted to virtual sessions when appropriate.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. Clients and parents are invited to give feedback so the plan can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit different schedules. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction; phone can work when bandwidth is limited; chat or text is useful for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options help people keep continuity of care, fit sessions around work or family, and use the format that best supports their needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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