- Years in practice
- 24
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Grief
About Sharon
Sharon Gallagher is a counsellor with 24 years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression and trauma. Sharon aims to treat everyone with respect and compassion as they take steps towards change.
She builds conversations around each person's needs and life situation. Sessions focus on practical goals and on what feels manageable for each person. Sharon adapts the pace and methods she uses so clients can find what helps them most.
Background and approach
Her work draws on client-centred ideas and evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness. She also offers hypnotherapy and solution-focused techniques when these suit a person's goals. These approaches are used to help with sleeping problems, low self-esteem, anger, parenting concerns and relationship or intimacy-related issues.
Sharon has supported people through major life changes, bereavement, and the long-term effects of trauma and abuse. She also works with concerns such as career pressures, family problems, codependency and coping after separation or domestic violence. Her practice includes attention to attachment and abandonment issues when they are relevant to a client's story.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Sharon uses a collaborative style that aims to make therapy feel practical and focused. She supports clients as they plan next steps and practise new ways of coping between meetings.
What Sharon works with
Everything Sharon lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Sharon helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Sharon lists
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centred work focuses on the person's own priorities and values. The counsellor listens closely, follows the client's lead and helps the person make choices that fit their life. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact and teaches straightforward strategies to change unhelpful patterns, which often helps with anxiety, depression and sleeping difficulties.Sharon may also use mindfulness techniques to help people notice stress and respond more calmly. Mindfulness involves simple attention practices and brings practical ways to reduce reactivity and improve focus. The counsellor will explain options and together with the client decide which approaches to try based on goals and preferences.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls suit longer sessions with visual contact. Phone sessions can be better when bandwidth is limited or the client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support and when written communication feels easier to manage. Many people find that these options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
Questions people ask about Sharon
What problems does she help with?
Sharon works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression and coping with life changes. She also addresses parenting, relationship and intimacy-related issues plus sleeping and anger problems.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Conversations focus on practical steps, short-term goals and what feels manageable for the client.
What experience does she bring?
She has 24 years of professional experience supporting people through bereavement, trauma, major life changes and ongoing mood or anxiety difficulties.
What professional credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with the BACP, which is recorded as her credential. She practises from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Sharon accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are fees and payment handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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