Sharlene Duplessis, LCSW
Licensed in Connecticut · 16 years in practice
Sharlene Duplessis is a licensed clinical social worker with sixteen years of experience helping people manage trauma, mood concerns, and everyday stresses.
License and registration
- LCSW, Connecticut
- 10424 · expires August 2026
- NPI
- 1689942534 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 16
- Languages
- English
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About Sharlene
Sharlene Duplessis is a licensed clinical social worker with sixteen years of experience helping people manage trauma, mood concerns, and everyday stresses. She approaches care with a trauma-informed, client-centered focus. Her work emphasizes practical skills and steady progress over time.
She uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used to build emotional regulation and reduce overwhelming reactions.
Background and approach
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is offered as one option for processing traumatic memories when appropriate. Sessions tend to focus on clear, achievable steps. She helps people build coping skills for anxiety, depression, bipolar mood shifts, and ADHD-related challenges.
Conversations often include communication strategies for relationship and family concerns, plus problem-solving for parenting and career stress. Sharlene also supports those working through grief, separation, and family-of-origin issues. She pays attention to shame, guilt, and isolation and helps clients practice self-compassion and forgiveness.
Small changes and consistent effort are emphasized as meaningful progress. Her background is largely in outpatient clinical social work in Connecticut. Sharlene invites each person to set goals and pick approaches that fit their needs.
She sees therapy as a collaborative, step-by-step process where persistence and small wins matter.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Sharlene lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Sharlene names
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Sharlene commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and lift mood. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that help during overwhelming moments. When trauma memories are a central problem, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing may be offered to help process those memories and reduce their emotional intensity.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most comfortable. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face work for skills practice and EMDR preparation. Phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or provide less visual intensity. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep consistent work on goals and to use therapy in the flow of everyday life.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she address?
She works with trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and related mood concerns. She also helps with relationship strain, parenting stress, career transitions, and life changes.
What style of therapy does she use?
Her approach is trauma-informed and client-centered, drawing on CBT, DBT, EMDR, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques. Sessions emphasize skills practice and clear steps forward.
How much experience does she have?
She has sixteen years of clinical experience, primarily in outpatient social work settings working with people affected by trauma and mood disorders.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Connecticut and practices from that state.
What languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is open to working with international clients.
What session formats are available?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are fees handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability, and sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
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