About Shavonna
Shavonna Fitzgerald is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience in New York. She focuses on building honest, straightforward connections so people feel heard. Her first priority is making a space where clients can name what they are feeling without judgment.
Her background includes work with survivors of domestic violence, people with substance use concerns, and individuals involved in forensic mental health. She has supported people facing depression, anxiety, complex trauma, relationship problems, school challenges, and big life changes.
Background and approach
She also lists ADHD among her focus areas. Shavonna uses a client-centered approach that respects each person's story. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot patterns and try new behaviors.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone wants change but feels stuck. Sessions are tailored to what a person needs that week. The work can include talking through recent events, learning coping skills, or testing small changes between sessions.
She aims to keep language clear and practical so parents and busy adults can use what they learn right away. People who look for a direct, compassionate therapist may find her style helpful. She frames progress as a series of small steps rather than sudden fixes.
That steady approach is intended to help people move toward the life they want.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what a person says so they can better understand themselves; this approach helps with confidence, self-esteem, relationship questions, and navigating life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to see what changes. It is often used for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related routines, and coping with stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to choose methods that match goals and preferences, and can adjust the plan as needs change. That collaborative stance means techniques are picked to fit the person, not forced into a rigid program.
Online formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent. Video calls let the therapist and client use face-to-face conversation for skill practice. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief reflections, check-ins, or prompts between sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can fit sessions around school, work, and family responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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