About Sharina
Sharina Anderson is a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, addiction concerns, grief, trauma, and issues around identity and self-worth. She also supports people dealing with sleep or eating disruptions, parenting strain, career crossroads, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and questions about sexuality and self-love.
Sharina writes plainly and aims to make beginning therapy less overwhelming for someone taking the first step.
Background and approach
She approaches sessions as a collaborative process where the client’s experience guides the work. Sharina believes people know their own stories and brings practical listening and feedback to help them name problems and try new ways of coping. She focuses on small, realistic changes that fit each person’s life.
Her practice pays attention to attachment and relational patterns such as abandonment, codependency, and isolation. She also addresses difficult emotional experiences like guilt, shame, dissociation, and forgiveness in ways that are paced to the individual. Over seven years of work in clinical settings shaped her style.
Sharina balances empathy with clear action steps so clients can try things between sessions and notice what helps. She uses the LCSW credential as a marker of her role as a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia. Sessions are offered in English and take place online using video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Sharina encourages people to start with one honest conversation about what matters most and then choose practical next steps together.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Sharina uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on helping people change patterns and feel steadier. One common approach she uses helps people identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors so mood and anxiety symptoms become more manageable; this is useful for worry, low mood, and stress. Another focus is on attachment and relational work that looks at how past relationships influence current reactions and helps people try new ways of connecting and setting boundaries.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She talks with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggests approaches to try together. That process is collaborative and may include adjusting techniques based on what helps most in real life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can suit times with lower bandwidth or when being on camera is difficult, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing brief contact between sessions. These options help people fit counseling into busy days and different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English