About Sharon
Sharon Gallagher has worked in counselling for 24 years and holds BACP registration, bringing long experience to everyday problems. She aims to make first steps feel manageable and helps people find steadier footing when life feels overwhelming. Her approach is straightforward and practical.
Sharon listens first and then adapts conversations and techniques to fit each person's situation. She uses a mix of ways to work through difficulties so sessions focus on what helps most right now.
How Sharon works
She supports people dealing with stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and depression, and the challenges that come with big life changes. Sharon also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting pressures, sleep problems, and work or career concerns. Other areas she works with include anger, self-esteem and complex issues such as bipolar disorder and family problems.
Sharon draws on client-centred work to keep sessions collaborative, cognitive behavioural methods to tackle unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, and mindfulness and solution-focused ideas to build coping skills and small wins. She also uses hypnotherapy where appropriate as part of a broader plan. Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs and pace.
Sharon aims to reply promptly to messages depending on her schedule, often the same day. Her practice serves people across the United Kingdom and beyond, with work conducted in English.
Sharon lists 6 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Sharon's approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's own goals and experience. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps people find their own solutions and pace for change, which can be helpful for issues like low self-esteem, grief or relationship stress.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It often involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying small experiments or new behaviours to reduce anxiety and lift mood.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce rumination and improve sleep and stress management. These exercises can be practised during sessions and carried into everyday life for ongoing benefit.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sharon will discuss options and try different methods to see what fits best with a person's needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process where adjustments are made as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for full conversational sessions, phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in, live chat suits people who prefer typing, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options give practical flexibility so therapy can fit around work, family and travel.
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