About Sharleen
Sharleen Nwakwesi greets people with a steady, straightforward style. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 28 years of experience based in Florida. Sharleen focuses on helping people reduce stress and anxiety, manage grief and depression, and cope with major life changes.
Her sessions are client-centered and solution-focused. She listens first, then helps people set clear, practical goals. Conversations tend to focus on immediate steps that fit into daily life rather than long lectures or vague plans.
Background and approach
Sharleen uses common-sense tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. She also uses motivational interviewing techniques to support people who want to change habits or move toward new goals. The emphasis is on doable strategies that build confidence over time.
She has experience across many concerns, including relationship strain, caregiver stress, trauma and abuse, anger, career challenges, ADHD, bipolar conditions, and issues tied to aging or illness. That experience helps her tailor practical plans for each person she speaks with. Sharleen aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can make decisions that improve daily life.
Her background includes social work degrees from Canadian universities and licensure as an LCSW. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs.
How her approaches translate to online care
Sharleen draws on client-centered methods that prioritize what each person wants to work on and how they prefer to do it. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people decide the goals that feel most important to them.She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to help people spot unhelpful thought patterns and try practical changes. CBT techniques are useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and problems like social anxiety or anger because they focus on small experiments and clear steps.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then recommend concrete strategies to try together. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and chat or text is convenient for brief check-ins or busy days. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or health needs while keeping therapy practical and focused.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Isolation / loneliness
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English