About Abani
Abani Dhewajoo offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, anger, low self-esteem, or major life changes. She focuses on helping clients build coping skills, improve motivation, and gain confidence. Abani works from a respectful, nonjudgmental stance and centers each person’s strengths in the work.
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW practicing in Illinois, she brings six years of therapy experience to her sessions.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and interactive, and she adapts conversations to fit each person’s needs. Abani aims to avoid stigmatizing labels and treats people with sensitivity and compassion. She draws on several approaches when it helps, including cognitive-behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also uses elements of dialectical work to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Attachment-based and client-centered ideas inform how she builds trust and focuses on the therapeutic relationship. Abani also supports concerns tied to adoption and foster care, communication difficulties, domestic violence, family problems, guilt and shame, impulsivity, life purpose, multicultural issues, pregnancy and childbirth, self-love, and women’s issues.
Sessions are tailored to the problem at hand and to what the client wants to accomplish. Therapy with Abani typically focuses on clear, practical steps you can try between sessions. She helps people set manageable goals, learn new skills, and notice progress.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s readiness.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work centers on relationships and emotional bonds; online sessions use conversation and reflection to help people notice patterns in how they connect and react. This approach can help with trauma, trust issues, and feeling seen. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors; it offers clear steps and exercises that translate well to video and messaging formats and can help with anxiety, stress, and low mood.Finding the best approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to choose methods that match goals, comfort level, and daily life. Sessions begin with a conversation about what the person wants to change and then try strategies while checking in on what helps or needs adjusting.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for real-time conversation and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat speeds brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life, or tight schedules while keeping the focus on concrete tools and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English