Sheri Bassewitz
Experienced LCSW focused on families and parenting
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Sheri
Sheri Bassewitz is a licensed clinical social worker with LCSW credentials who brings three decades of experience to family and parenting concerns. She draws on practical skills developed in hospice, oncology, school settings, and independent practice to help families and parents facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, ADHD, and related challenges.
Sheri writes and speaks plainly, focusing on clear goals and usable tools for day-to-day life. Her early career included work in hospice, oncology, and home care agencies for 15 years.
Background and approach
She then moved into school-based practice for another 15 years, earning a certificate to work in that setting. These roles gave her hands-on experience with children who have social communication needs and other developmental differences.
Sheri has also spent many summers at camps for children, including a program for kids with speech, language, and social emotional learning needs, and volunteered at a camp for children with serious illnesses. She has supervised social workers pursuing licensure and has experience mentoring newer clinicians.
In independent practice she has worked with children, adolescents, and families on issues that interfere with daily life. She uses a mix of approaches to teach coping skills, manage emotions, and set realistic family goals. Her work often includes supporting parents who want concrete strategies to help their children and household routines.
Sheri’s approach is straightforward and collaborative. She helps families define goals and practices small steps that fit busy schedules. Sessions emphasize practical strategies parents can try between meetings and steady progress over time.
How Sheri's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building understanding. The therapist follows the person's lead, helping parents and children name priorities and try practical steps that fit family life.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people see and name patterns in their emotional responses. It can be useful when family members want to improve how they connect and respond to each other during conflicts.
Sheri will work with each family or individual to find the right mix of approaches. Choosing a method is a collaborative process based on needs, goals, and what feels most helpful. She checks in and adjusts plans as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make it easier for busy families to access care. These options allow parents and teens to meet from home, fit sessions into school or work schedules, and try short check-ins when a quick strategy or follow-up is needed.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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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
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