About Sharan
Sharan Thiara welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, addiction or relationship pain. She offers calm, steady support and practical ways to manage difficult feelings. Sharan is a BACP counsellor with seven years of experience and she speaks English.
Sharan uses straightforward, relatable language in sessions. She helps people notice patterns that cause pain and try small, manageable changes. Work with her might include learning ways to cope with panic, tackle low mood, or manage urges tied to substance use.
How Sharan works
Her approach blends several evidence-informed methods. Sharan draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept uncomfortable feelings while acting on what matters. She uses Attachment-Based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current trust and closeness.
Sharan also uses elements of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to teach practical skills. These can include ways to shift unhelpful thoughts, manage strong emotions and build steadier routines for sleeping and eating. Sessions are offered remotely in English and can address topics such as grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, career stress, communication problems and compassion fatigue.
She also works with concerns like abandonment, dissociation, domestic violence and eating issues. Starting is simple: use the site to answer a short matching questionnaire and schedule a slot. Sharan aims to create a non-judgemental space where people can name what hurts and take small steps toward feeling better.
Sharan lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Sharan works with
The areas below are the ones Sharan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Sharan often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. ACT focuses on what matters to each person and encourages actions that match those values, which can help with anxiety, depression and addiction struggles.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how patterns from early relationships affect current bonds and trust. This approach can help people understand recurring relationship problems, commitment issues and difficulties with intimacy.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then try methods that suit those aims. That collaborative process means approaches can change as needs shift.
Online sessions can be delivered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work well with lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging can fit brief check-ins or days when typing feels easier. These formats make counselling more flexible and help people fit sessions around work, travel or family duties.
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A practical next step
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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