About Shara
Shara Biggs is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Tennessee. She uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship concerns. Shara aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk about what matters most to them.
Shara draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose values-based actions. She also uses Attachment-Based and Client-Centered approaches to strengthen emotional awareness and improve how people relate to themselves and others.
How Shara works
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills may be introduced to teach emotion regulation and coping tools. With four years of clinical experience, Shara focuses on real-life problems like stress, grief, parenting strain, career change, sleep and eating issues, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses concerns such as ADHD, bipolar symptoms, body image, addiction, and trauma.
Her work includes additional areas like abandonment, attachment issues, codependency, and coping after separation. Sessions involve direct conversation, skills practice, and goal-setting tailored to each person's needs. Shara offers a straightforward, collaborative style that helps people identify next steps and make small changes that add up over time.
Therapy is offered in English and is available through several online formats. People interested in starting complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
Shara lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Shara works with
The areas below are the ones Shara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, addiction challenges, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and skill-building. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with stress.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and daily life. That might mean trying different techniques and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets, while phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text messaging can support quick check-ins, shorter coaching-style contacts, or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into work, family, and other commitments.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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