About Shervonne
Shervonne Banks is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing from Virginia. She brings four years of clinical therapy experience plus a long history of helping people navigate life changes. She often supports clients facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, addiction, and ADHD.
Her approach blends practical strategies with attention to a person’s strengths and goals. She uses clear, solution-focused techniques in sessions. That means working together to set simple goals, try small changes, and build routines that fit day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Shervonne also draws on mindfulness and narrative ideas to help people notice patterns and rewrite the stories that hold them back. Sessions tend to be collaborative and direct. Clients can expect to talk through current struggles, learn skills for emotional regulation, and practice tools between meetings.
She emphasizes pacing the work so people feel capable of trying new steps without becoming overwhelmed. Shervonne has experience supporting caregivers, people with chronic illness or pain, and those dealing with life transitions such as aging, career shifts, or loss. She also addresses issues like compassion fatigue, communication problems, and substance use in a practical way that focuses on next steps.
Her style is grounded and hopeful. She encourages people to recognize existing strengths, set realistic goals, and build clearer daily routines. The focus is on useful change that fits each person’s life and priorities.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Shervonne often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in her online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing simple behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice their thoughts and bodily reactions so they can respond more calmly to stressors.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each client about their goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide whether to emphasize skills-based CBT, mindfulness practices, or elements from narrative work to reshape how a person tells their own story.
Online therapy lets people access sessions in different ways: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions for lower bandwidth needs, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, try a quick coping skill during downtime, or continue work when travel or relocation would otherwise interrupt progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, Virginia, Washington
- Languages
- English
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