Therapist profile
Shervonne Banks, LCSW
LCSW - Stress and family related concerns
Continue with ShervonneAbout
- CBT techniques
- Mindfulness skills
- Solution-focused work
About Shervonne
Shervonne Banks is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with four years of clinical therapy experience and a longer history working with people on everyday life challenges. She practices from Virginia and notes work helping people manage anxiety, caregiver fatigue, workplace stress, and other life changes. Her background includes years of supporting adults who want practical change in how they live and cope.
She uses a blend of psychological ideas and solution-focused tools to address problems. Sessions often center on identifying strengths, setting concrete steps, and improving everyday functioning. That can mean talking through worry, building routines for sleep, or finding clearer ways to handle family strain.
Shervonne’s style weaves cognitive and behavioral techniques with mindfulness and narrative elements. She also draws on motivational interviewing to help people move toward goals they value. The work tends to be actionable rather than abstract, with short-term skills and longer exploration when needed.
People who come for help with parenting stress, career transitions, grief, addiction concerns, or caregiving strain may find the focus is on practical coping and clearer decision-making. Sessions attend to emotions and to what people can try between meetings.
She invites clients to take an active role in shaping therapy. That includes choosing goals and tracking small steps forward. The approach emphasizes building resilience through specific strategies and repeated practice.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Shervonne commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness in her work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or depressive patterns. Mindfulness therapy trains simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and stress management.She also uses motivational interviewing to help people clarify goals and move toward them when ambivalence gets in the way. That approach centers on asking questions, reflecting what matters to the person, and setting achievable next steps. Choosing which methods to emphasize is a collaborative process based on the person's goals, current challenges, and what works in day-to-day life.
Confirm the available session formats before booking so you know how meetings are scheduled. Many people find online sessions easier to fit around parenting, work, or caregiving responsibilities because they remove travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Others appreciate that some approaches, such as mindfulness practice or CBT homework, transfer well to remote work because they rely on exercises and reflections rather than in-room tools. The therapist will discuss practical scheduling and format details during the matching and first session to make sessions manageable within everyday routines.
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Experience
4+ years
Listed in
Connecticut, Virginia, Washington
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, anger, depression, addictions, parenting and family-related concerns, and caregiving strain.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style combines cognitive-behavioral ideas, mindfulness, narrative elements and solution-focused tasks to produce practical steps people can try between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has four years of clinical therapy experience and additional years working with people in community settings before clinical practice.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is an LCSW and practices from Virginia, with license details indicating VA LCSW and CT LCSW.
Can people who live outside the United States work with her?
She accepts international clients and sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats does she offer?
Confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are offered for scheduling and fit.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and services use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What do I need to do to begin?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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