Shavonna Fitzgerald, LCSW

Shavonna Fitzgerald is a licensed clinical social worker who brings ten years of practice in New York to each session. She focuses on building honest connections first and helps people feel able to speak openly about hard feelings. Her work includes addressing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and intimacy-related issues.

Her background includes supporting survivors of domestic violence, individuals with substance use concerns, and people facing complex trauma. She has also worked with parenting challenges, family-of-origin issues, and career or life changes. This breadth informs how she approaches varied problems in therapy.

In sessions she uses a client-centered style. That means conversations start with the person’s priorities and move at a comfortable pace. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot patterns of thinking that get in the way, and on mindfulness practices to help with emotional regulation.

Motivational interviewing and narrative methods appear when clients want to make changes or reframe life stories. These approaches are used together depending on what a person needs that week. Treatment is adapted as goals shift over time.

Shavonna works in ways that respect culture and individual background. She aims to help people leave therapy feeling more able to manage daily stress, relationships, and intimacy concerns. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled based on therapist availability.

How clients use different therapeutic approaches online

Shavonna commonly combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral tools. Client-centered work focuses on listening and following the person’s priorities. It helps when someone needs space to name feelings and set goals at their own pace. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and teaches practical skills to change them, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.

She also uses mindfulness practices to help people notice emotions and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness exercises can be short and adapted to daily routines, which often makes them easy to try between sessions. Choosing the right mix of methods is a collaborative process; the therapist will work with each person to test approaches and adjust based on what helps most.

Because the biography does not list specific online session formats, confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example shorter check-ins on a break, or sessions without travel time. It can also allow people to practice skills in the places they live and work, then bring those experiences back into conversation with the therapist.