Sherita Dobbins

Sherita Dobbins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Mississippi with 18 years of experience supporting children, families, and individuals. She earned a Master of Science degree in Social Work with a focus on Clinical Evidenced-Based Interpersonal Practice from the University of Tennessee and is currently pursuing an Educational Specialist degree with a specialization in Play Therapy at the University of Mississippi.

She has extensive training in trauma, child abuse, sexual abuse, and grief-related concerns, and has worked across mental health, inpatient, outpatient, and school settings as well as in a home hospice program. Her clinical experience includes providing individual, group, and family therapy.

Sherita has worked with people facing depression, anxiety, ADHD, grief and loss, bipolar disorder, adjustment challenges, trauma and abuse, relationship difficulties, and crises. Her specialties also include stress, family conflicts, parenting issues, anger management, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue.

Her counseling style is client-centered, warm, and empathetic while remaining direct, open, and honest. She emphasizes treating everyone with dignity and respect, meeting clients where they are, and offering nonjudgmental, sensitive support. Sherita uses an eclectic approach tailored to each person’s needs, drawing on Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Behavior Modification, and Person-Centered techniques. Her credentials reflect graduate-level training and state licensure: MS indicates a Master of Science in Social Work, LCSW denotes Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and C8296 is her Mississippi license number. She is committed to supporting personal growth and healing and looks forward to assisting clients on their recovery journey.