About Sharon
Sharon Hollandsworth is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with four decades of clinical experience in North Carolina. She has spent many years helping adults in both individual and group therapy settings. Sharon begins by listening closely to what feels hard and what a person wants from counseling.
That sets the direction for ongoing work together. Her style is supportive and validating. She uses client-centered methods alongside practical skill building.
Early sessions focus on assessing current struggles and clarifying goals.
How Sharon works
That assessment guides which skills and strategies she introduces. Sharon teaches coping skills for anxiety, stress, and strong emotions. She helps people build focus, relaxation routines, and better ways to handle relationship and interpersonal difficulty.
Problem solving and planning are regular parts of sessions when choices or decisions are needed. She also works with issues such as trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, mood concerns including bipolar symptoms, and concerns about intimacy and self-esteem. Parenting stress, sleep and eating concerns, career transitions, and LGBT-related matters are within her practice focus.
Sharon draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral methods, dialectical behavior techniques, emotionally focused and existential ideas to match each person's needs. She aims to help people leave sessions with useful tools and clearer next steps. Her background includes a bachelor of music and a psychology major, followed by a Master of Social Work from the University of Tennessee.
Much of her career was spent in community mental health centers around the Raleigh/Durham area.
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
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How Sharon's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and working from the concerns you bring. The therapist follows your lead, helping you name what matters and set goals that feel relevant. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors to find practical changes that reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. It often uses simple exercises and homework to practice new skills. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Sharon will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals, needs, and preferences. Plans can change over time as skills are learned and new challenges arise, and she will adjust the focus together with the client.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people connect face to face when schedules or travel make in-person visits harder. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide flexible ways to share thoughts in writing or to get brief support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while still working on skill building and problem solving.
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