About Sharlene
Sharlene Duplessis is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, trauma-informed care. She uses clear, skills-based methods to help people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and the aftereffects of trauma. Sharlene keeps sessions direct and compassionate so parents and adults can make steady progress.
She relies on approaches that teach concrete tools for day-to-day life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for emotion regulation and managing strong reactions.
Background and approach
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing offers a way to reduce the hold of painful memories when needed. Sharlene brings 16 years of experience in clinical social work in Connecticut. Much of her background is in outpatient settings supporting people facing trauma, mood disorders, and relationship strain.
She also works with concerns like ADHD, anger, self-esteem, parenting stress, and life transitions. In sessions she helps people break big problems into small, manageable steps. She encourages noticing small wins, building practical coping skills, and trying different approaches until something fits.
The work aims to increase flexibility and day-to-day functioning rather than promise a fixed outcome. Sharlene offers several ways to meet depending on what fits best. Conversations are collaborative: goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made.
She accepts clients in English and works with international clients when that is suitable.
Online approaches that teach coping and reduce trauma impact
Sharlene uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking. CBT focuses on small experiments and skills that change daily behavior and reduce anxiety and low mood.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. DBT offers clear tools to manage intense feelings and improve relationships without getting overwhelmed. When trauma memories are a major problem, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing can be used to lessen the intensity of those memories and the distress they cause.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Then they try methods that fit and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit daily life. Video is useful for full conversations and learning new skills. Phone works when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy schedule. Live chat or messaging can support ongoing reminders, brief processing, and practice between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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