About Sharon
Sharon Gurr offers practical, person-centred counselling that focuses on present needs and real change. She blends gentle listening with structured tools so people can manage stress, anxiety, addiction and relationship difficulties. Sharon is named in the first paragraph as Sharon Gurr and holds BACP accreditation which indicates membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
She has five years' experience in practice. Sharon aims to make therapy straightforward and useful.
How Sharon works
Sessions often begin by looking at what matters most right now. That can be coping with grief, sorting out daily routines for better sleep, or building skills to manage anger and mood swings. Work is paced to suit each person and practical strategies are offered alongside reflective conversation.
Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas delivered in a client-centred way. That means Sharon listens for each person’s values and goals, then helps find small steps that fit their life. Techniques may include noticing unhelpful thoughts, practicing new behaviours, and learning ways to tolerate difficult feelings.
Sharon also supports people dealing with complex backgrounds such as adoption and foster care issues, attachment difficulties, chronic illness or trauma. She helps people understand patterns from the past and make changes that matter now. Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging for people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled according to availability.
Sharon lists 14 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches suited to online support
Sharon commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy alongside attachment-based work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then act in ways that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical skills to reduce distress and improve routines like sleep and eating.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Sharon treats this as a collaborative process and will discuss options based on the person’s goals and preferences. Together they agree which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging offers flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can suit people who prefer written reflection or need brief, timely support between sessions. Registered or accredited professionals provide these formats so people can fit therapy around work, caring commitments or travel.
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