About Sheri
Sheri Bassewitz is a licensed clinical social worker with three decades of experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, and the stress that comes with big life changes. Sheri uses straightforward talk and practical tools so families and individuals can take small, useful steps forward.
She began her career in hospice, oncology, and home care settings, where she spent many years supporting people through serious illness and end-of-life concerns.
Background and approach
Later she worked in school settings, supporting students’ social and emotional needs. Those roles shaped her ability to address mood concerns and social communication challenges. Sheri has also worked at camps for children with speech, language, and social learning needs, and volunteered at a summer camp for kids with serious illnesses.
These experiences gave her extra exposure to young people who need gentle, concrete support. In independent practice she has supported people facing anxiety, ADHD, autism spectrum concerns, and the daily impacts those challenges bring. She aims to help each person name their goals and build simple coping strategies that fit their life and routine.
Sheri draws on several therapeutic approaches to match what each person needs. She combines listening, problem-solving, and mindfulness to help people manage stress, improve mood, and handle tough moments more effectively.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and strengths. It involves the therapist listening carefully and reflecting back what matters to the person, which helps people clarify what they want to change and how to get there.Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name emotions that drive reactions. This approach is useful for managing strong feelings like grief, anxiety, or overwhelm and helps clients learn new ways to respond to those feelings.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve focus. These skills can help with anxiety, mood swings, impulsivity, and daily overwhelm by building small habits that calm the body and mind.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and will try different ways of working until a good fit emerges. That collaboration helps shape which methods are used and how sessions are structured.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues and stay connected when travel is hard. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a lunch break or a quick check-in. Live chat or text-based messaging can work for short updates, brief coping reminders, or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- 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