About Nupur
Nupur Sharma helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, or major life changes. She works with individuals facing career challenges, depression, or difficulty finding direction. Her style is calm and straightforward, aimed at making the first steps easier for someone who is worried about reaching out.
She creates a space where clients can speak openly about thoughts and feelings. Conversations focus on practical ways to cope day to day.
How Nupur works
She listens and helps identify small changes that add up over time. Sharma draws on several approaches to match each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to notice unhelpful thinking and build different habits.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take meaningful action, even when feelings are strong. Her work also includes attachment-based ideas to strengthen how people relate to others, and techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy for managing intense emotions. Sessions tend to blend these methods into usable strategies rather than strict rules.
Nupur holds an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential, listed as LCPC. She has sixteen years of professional experience helping people manage mood issues, panic, chronic illness challenges, and life transitions. She offers services in English and provides several remote session formats for convenience.
Nupur lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Nupur works with
The areas below are the ones Nupur selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and decide what matters most to them, then take small actions toward those values. It can be useful for anxiety, low motivation, and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches simple strategies to change patterns that cause distress. It often helps with anxiety, panic, and mood symptoms.
Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes understanding patterns in relationships and strengthening how someone connects with others. This can be helpful for loneliness, communication problems, and issues tied to trust or closeness.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then combine methods that fit those needs. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so sessions stay practical and focused on real-life changes.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quick check-ins, and texting suits brief updates or coping prompts during the day. These options help people fit sessions into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping therapy consistent.
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