- Years in practice
- 10
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Sharon
Sharon Shaw is a psychotherapist with ten years of clinical experience and a BACP registration. She writes in a direct, warm way and focuses on helping people understand what keeps them stuck. Her work is practical and relational, aimed at restoring balance and clearer choices in daily life.
Sharon draws on several approaches, including cognitive-behavioural and attachment-informed ways of working, plus client-centred listening and emotionally-focused conversations. Sessions are shaped around each person's history and current concerns rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
Background and approach
Parents often come with worries about sleep, eating, stress, or relationship tensions at home. She has worked with people dealing with trauma, abuse, narcissistic behaviour, infidelity, addictions, depression and anxiety. Sharon also supports those facing grief, career changes, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related challenges and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Her additional focus areas include abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment issues and blended family concerns. Her style is described as authentic, warm and interactive. Sharon aims to treat every person with sensitivity and respect while helping them spot patterns that cause distress.
Conversations look at survival responses and how those responses can be changed into more helpful choices. Sharon has written about her personal journey and therapeutic learning, and intends to publish books in 2026. People can expect straightforward dialogue, practical tools and a collaborative plan as therapy progresses.
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Sharon lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic 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.
How Sharon's approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current reactions. In sessions this looks like noticing patterns between partners or parents and children, and finding new ways to respond that feel safer and more connected. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, aims to spot unhelpful thoughts and test them with practical experiments. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep and parenting-related stress because it gives clear steps to try between sessions. Emotionally-focused elements help name and work with strong feelings in the moment, which can improve intimacy and reduce repeated arguments.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss your goals, preferred style and practical needs and then tailor sessions together. That might mean combining methods, trying short practical tasks, or focusing on emotional repair depending on what you want to change.
Online sessions are delivered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone works well with limited bandwidth, and text options suit quick check-ins or reflective writing between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around family life, work shifts and busy days while still working on attachment, patterns and practical coping skills.
Questions people ask about Sharon
What concerns does Sharon commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, intimacy and relationship issues, parenting worries, grief and related problems.
What is Sharon's therapeutic style like?
Her approach is warm, authentic and interactive, combining practical techniques with relational exploration to help people change habitual patterns.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
Sharon has ten years of experience as a psychotherapist and has also undertaken an extended personal therapy journey that informs her practice.
Where is Sharon based and what credential does she hold?
She works from the United Kingdom and holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP.
Which languages and international arrangements are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different preferences.
How are fees and subscriptions handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with Sharon?
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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