About Sharen
Sharen Robertson supports people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, addiction and relationship problems. She also helps with sleep and eating difficulties, parenting strain, career challenges, grief, anger, bipolar disorder, ADHD and compassion fatigue. Sharen works with people who want coaching-style support as well as those seeking therapy for long-term concerns.
Sharen uses a blend of practical talking therapy and skills work. She draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small, manageable changes.
How Sharen works
Attachment-based ideas and client-centred listening guide how she builds understanding of relationship difficulties and emotional responses. Over 14 years she has worked with people affected by child abuse, domestic violence, human trafficking and complex trauma. She also has experience supporting people living with chronic illness and cancer, and those managing neurodiversity such as ADHD and autism.
Her background includes long-term work supporting recovery from substance misuse. In sessions Sharen aims to be calm and straightforward. She offers practical strategies alongside space to talk.
That may mean learning grounding or breathing skills, trying new ways to think about a problem, or planning small steps towards a goal. People who choose her often want someone who listens without judgement and offers tools they can use between sessions.
She sees each person as having strengths to build on and works at the client’s pace to help them move towards clearer goals.
Sharen lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Sharen works with
The areas below are the ones Sharen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes by emphasising small, value-led steps. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and uses practical exercises to change patterns that keep problems going; it often helps with anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try. This is a collaborative process that can be adjusted as needs change over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and deeper discussion. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or to fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, note-taking, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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