About Sheri
Sheri Bassewitz is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with three decades of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, and depression. She draws on practical methods to help clients define goals and learn skills for everyday life. Sheri writes clearly and listens carefully to what matters most to each person she sees.
Her background includes many years in hospice, oncology, and home care early in her career. She later worked in school settings and spent time in independent practice supporting children, adolescents, and adults.
How Sheri works
Those roles gave her experience with social communication differences, autism spectrum conditions, and attention challenges. Sheri uses a mix of client-centered work, emotionally-focused techniques, mindfulness, psychodynamic ideas, and solution-focused strategies. That combination lets her match the approach to a person's needs and pace.
Sessions focus on straightforward tools, emotional understanding, and small, practical steps forward. She has also worked at camps for children with speech, language, and social-emotional needs and volunteered with The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for kids with serious illnesses. Sheri has supervised social workers who were pursuing licensure, adding mentorship to her clinical experience.
Sheri practices in Illinois and conducts sessions in English. Her goal is to help people build coping strategies, manage symptoms like impulsivity or compulsive behavior, and move toward clearer daily routines and goals.
Sheri lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Sheri works with
The areas below are the ones Sheri selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's priorities. The therapist offers a supportive, nonjudgmental space where clients define goals and explore what matters most to them. This approach is useful for general stress, depression, and building self-esteem.Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and understand strong feelings and how those feelings affect behavior. It can help with anxiety, grief, and relationship-related emotions by guiding clients to notice patterns and try new ways of responding.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple practices to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without getting swept up by them. These tools can reduce reactivity to stress and help with mood shifts, compulsive impulses, and seasonal mood changes.
Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match approaches to their needs, goals, and personal preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let visual cues guide emotionally focused or client-centered work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coping tools between sessions, or when writing helps someone process their thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care across different situations.
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