About Sheri
Sheri Bassewitz is an LCSW who brings three decades of clinical experience to her work with clients in Illinois. She blends a client-centered stance with evidence-informed methods to help people manage anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and everyday stressors.
Background and approach
Her background spans hospice and oncology care, school-based services, and personal-practice work, giving her a broad perspective on how life transitions and medical or developmental challenges affect emotional well-being. Across settings, Sheri has supported individuals and families coping with ADHD, autism spectrum concerns, social communication difficulties, and compassion fatigue.
She has also worked with people facing cancer, end-of-life issues, and the aftermath of disasters. In addition to hands-on clinical roles, she has experience supervising social workers and contributing to therapeutic programs at camps serving children with speech, language, and medical challenges.
In independent practice she focuses on practical skills and goal-oriented strategies, helping clients define personal aims and develop coping tools for daily life. Sheri emphasizes collaboration and tailors her approach to each client’s needs, drawing on client-centered, emotionally-focused, mindfulness, psychodynamic, and solution-focused techniques.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a collaborative, empathetic relationship in which the therapist listens attentively and helps clients explore their own values and goals. This approach supports people facing anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions by focusing on individual strengths and self-directed growth.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on noticing and regulating emotions within relationships and personal patterns, helping clients understand attachment-related responses and improve emotional connection and coping. Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and stress management techniques that can reduce reactivity and support mood regulation.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to assess needs, preferences, and goals, and then recommend or combine methods that best fit the presenting issues. This process is flexible and responsive as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers practical benefits such as easier scheduling and access from one’s home or other convenient locations. With options for video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, clients can select the format that fits their routine and comfort level while maintaining consistent contact with a licensed professional. These options help make ongoing care more manageable amid busy lives and changing circumstances.
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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