About Shari
Shari Baldwin is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience helping people navigate difficult life changes. She brings a straightforward, compassionate approach that focuses on practical steps. Her work often addresses anxiety and related concerns alongside depression, grief, and addiction.
Clients can expect sessions that are honest and down-to-earth. Shari aims to make therapy a collaborative process where goals are clear and progress is measurable. She emphasizes realistic strategies people can use between sessions to manage stress and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
Shari has worked with individuals on a wide range of issues, including trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy challenges, and parenting stress. She also offers support around eating and sleeping concerns, obsessive thoughts, and substance misuse. Her background includes helping people with career struggles, self-esteem, and recovery from loss.
Her style blends practical problem solving with emotional support. Shari listens for patterns that keep people stuck and then helps them try different ways of responding. Sessions move at a pace the client chooses and focus on building skills that fit real life demands.
Located in Indiana, Shari provides care in English. She frames therapy as a team effort and works with each person to set priorities and next steps. People who want clear, applicable tools alongside empathetic listening often find her approach useful.
Approaches that guide online therapy
Shari uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to the issue at hand. One common approach focuses on practical skill building to manage anxiety and stress - teaching breathing, pacing, and planning strategies that reduce overwhelm and improve daily routines. Another approach centers on processing trauma and grief in manageable steps, helping people tolerate difficult memories while rebuilding a sense of control and safety.Finding the right method is part of the work. Shari collaborates with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, comfort level, and the problems they want to address. That choice is revisited as progress is made so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and shared focus; phone sessions can fit a shorter break in a busy day or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messages make it possible to check in between sessions or to have brief, timely exchanges when issues come up. These options make it easier to fit consistent care into everyday life and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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