About Shari
Shari Baldwin is a licensed clinical social worker with 18 years of experience helping people navigate major life challenges. She practices from Indiana and meets clients online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Shari focuses on practical steps and honest conversation to help people move forward.
She works with adults around addiction, trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, and stress. She also addresses relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem, parenting strain, and career questions.
Background and approach
Shari often helps people facing recovery, complicated grief, or the fallout from abuse and prejudice. Her style is straightforward and compassionate. Sessions are meant to be a mix of listening, problem solving, and planning.
She aims to help people find real-life solutions that fit their daily routines. Shari also supports people dealing with body image, eating and sleeping problems, postpartum mood changes, and obsessive thoughts. She brings an understanding of caregiver stress, blended family tensions, and issues connected to HIV/AIDS and domestic violence.
Clients can expect collaborative goal-setting and practical steps between sessions. Shari describes therapy as a team effort where small changes add up. The work focuses on what is manageable next, not on perfect outcomes.
Therapeutic Approaches and How They Work Online
Shari uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-world change. One common approach is goal-focused problem solving, which breaks larger issues into small, practical steps and helps people test what works between sessions. This is useful for addiction recovery, stress, and daily coping.Another approach is trauma-informed care, which prioritizes safety and pacing while helping people process difficult events. This work can help with post-traumatic stress, abuse recovery, and intense grief by giving structure to healing over time.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client discuss needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit the person’s life. Adjustments are made as progress unfolds so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different routines. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or during a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, homework, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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