About Shavonna
Shavonna Fitzgerald is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience in New York. She centers honesty and a genuine connection at the start of work with someone. That straightforward, human approach guides how she meets people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns.
Her background includes work with survivors of domestic violence, people facing substance use challenges, and individuals involved in forensic mental health settings.
How Shavonna works
She has helped clients with depression, complex trauma, life transitions, and school or career-related stress. Much of her work also addresses parenting concerns, family problems, and issues tied to identity and intimate relationships. In sessions she uses a client-centered stance, meaning attention stays on the person’s goals and experience.
She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot and shift unhelpful thinking. Motivational interviewing helps when someone is weighing change, and narrative and mindfulness practices support noticing patterns and building new responses. She aims to make therapy practical and relatable.
Conversations focus on what is happening now and useful next steps. Shavonna helps people name what is most urgent and develop small, manageable strategies to move forward. Her style is warm and direct.
She pays attention to culture and context while tailoring plans to each person. The goal is steady progress so people feel more capable handling stress, relationships, and life’s changes.
Shavonna lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Shavonna works with
The areas below are the ones Shavonna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person’s lead. It helps when someone needs a space to sort feelings, set goals, and decide what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors keep problems going and teaches clear steps to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what felt helpful in past efforts. That conversation guides which methods are used and how sessions are structured, so the plan fits the person rather than forcing a single model.
Online therapy offers several flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a good option for a quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, ongoing check-ins, or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other commitments while still using client-centered and CBT tools.
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