About Sheri
Sheri Bassewitz is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of practical experience. She brings a calm, steady approach to sessions and focuses on clear, doable steps people can use right away. Sheri works with adults, children, and adolescents who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and related concerns.
Her background includes long experience in hospice, oncology, and home care settings early in her career. She also spent many years working in school environments and later in independent practice.
Background and approach
Those roles shaped how she hears what causes worry and distress in daily life. Sheri uses approaches that help people feel understood and then find workable ways forward. She draws from client-centered methods to follow each person's lead.
She uses emotionally-focused and psychodynamic ideas to help people notice patterns that keep them stuck. She also brings mindfulness and solution-focused techniques to sessions. These approaches emphasize practical skills - breathing, grounding, short problem-solving steps - that can reduce overwhelm.
Sheri often helps clients set small goals and track progress between sessions. Her experience includes work with autism spectrum conditions, ADHD, grief, and coping with medical and life crises. She has supervised social workers and worked at camps supporting children with medical and social-emotional needs.
That mix of settings informs a flexible, down-to-earth style. Sheri aims to help people identify clear goals and learn tools to manage stress and daily challenges. She encourages steady progress through small, measurable steps and collaborative planning.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy is built around listening and following what matters most to the person in front of the therapist. It helps people feel heard and helps set goals based on their priorities. Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) helps people identify and work with strong emotions that drive difficult patterns, which can be useful for anxiety, grief, and relationship stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and grounding practices to reduce reactivity and manage overwhelm during stressful moments.Finding the right approach is part of therapy itself. Sheri will talk with each client about their goals and preferences and suggest ways to try different methods. She treats the choice as collaborative and will adjust the plan as progress and needs become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well if bandwidth is limited or a camera feels too much. Live chat and messaging make it easier to check in between appointments or fit therapy into a busy schedule. These options aim to make it simpler to keep continuity of care and use tools that match daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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