About Sharon
Dr. Sharon Belhamel is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in Georgia with 20 years of experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or major life changes.
Her approach aims to make everyday life more manageable and meaningful. She draws from several practical therapies to tailor sessions to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people focus on values and take small, value-driven steps.
How Sharon works
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions. Sharon also uses attachment-focused ideas to look at how past relationships affect current patterns. Client-centered methods make space for people to set the pace and priorities in sessions.
These approaches combine to address concerns like relationship strain, grief, addiction, burnout, and ADHD-related challenges. She works with issues across a wide range, including career stress, intimacy-related problems, self-esteem, trauma and abuse, and caregiver strain. Additional focuses include adoption and foster care matters, aging and geriatric concerns, chronic illness, and diverse sexual culture topics such as BDSM and kink.
Treatment plans are individualized rather than one-size-fits-all. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients. The therapist uses a collaborative style and encourages people to try different strategies and notice what helps.
Practical skills and clear goals are emphasized so progress can be tracked over time.
Sharon lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Sharon works with
The areas below are the ones Sharon selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- 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
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their values and take small steps toward them despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and navigating life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills for intense moods and relationship challenges.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to pick methods that fit a person’s goals and preferences. That can mean trying something short-term, checking progress, and adjusting the plan together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit work, travel, or caregiving schedules while keeping sessions focused on practical skills and real-world goals.
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