Sherita Dobbins, LCSW

Sherita Dobbins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Mississippi with 18 years of clinical experience supporting children, families, and adults through a range of challenges. She holds a Master of Science in Social Work with a clinical focus from the University of Tennessee and is pursuing an Educational Specialist degree in Play Therapy at the University of Mississippi. Her background includes extensive training in trauma, child abuse, sexual abuse, and grief-related concerns, and she has worked across mental health, inpatient, outpatient, school, and home hospice settings.

Throughout her career she has provided individual, group, and family therapy for people coping with depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disorder, grief and loss, adjustment difficulties, trauma, abuse, relationship struggles, and crisis situations. Her approach is client-centered and strengths-based, blending warmth and empathy with direct, honest feedback. Sherita emphasizes meeting people where they are, honoring dignity and respect, and offering nonjudgmental support tailored to each person’s needs.

She uses an eclectic set of evidence-informed methods, drawing on Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused techniques, Motivational Interviewing, behavior modification strategies, and person-centered principles to help clients build coping skills, improve relationships, and pursue personal growth. Sherita focuses on practical change and healing while attending to each individual’s unique story and goals.