About Sheri
Sheri Bassewitz is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She brings a calm, practical approach and aims to help clients develop tools they can use day to day. She spent many years in hospice, oncology, and home care settings early in her career.
That work shaped her comfort with serious illness, end-of-life concerns, and grief support. Those years also informed her focus on hospice and end-of-life counseling and cancer-related distress.
Background and approach
Sheri later worked in school settings for many years, supporting children with social and learning challenges. That school experience led to work with social communication issues and with autism and Asperger syndrome. She also ran programs at camps for children with speech, language, and social-emotional needs, and volunteered at a camp for children with serious illnesses.
In recent years she practiced in personal settings with children, adolescents, and adults. She helps people facing parenting stress, family problems, and life transitions. She also supports those coping with trauma, compassion fatigue, impulsivity, and mood disorders.
Sheri uses several ways of working, including client-centered conversation, emotion-focused methods, mindfulness, psychodynamic ideas, and solution-focused strategies. Her aim is to listen, clarify goals, and build simple strategies that fit each person’s life. She welcomes people who want straightforward support and practical skills for daily living.
How Sheri’s approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. In practice this means sessions start with what matters most to the client and build practical steps from there. Emotionally-focused work helps people notice and name their emotions and how those feelings affect relationships and daily life; it can help when anxiety, grief, or family conflict make functioning harder.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Sheri will discuss goals and preferences and jointly decide which methods to try. That collaborative process makes it easier to adjust the plan if something isn't working and to combine approaches when needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a tight schedule or be used when video would be hard. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between longer sessions or update progress in short messages. These options help people fit therapy into school, work, or caregiving routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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