About Sharon
Sharon Jenkins offers a steady, straightforward approach for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, relationship strain, and other life challenges. She speaks plainly and aims to help people take practical steps toward feeling better. Sharon has 25 years of experience and holds the credentials LCSW, CSW.
Sharon works with adults on issues that include trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stress, anger, bipolar disorder, and ADHD.
How Sharon works
She also supports people dealing with caregiving strain, chronic illness or pain, body image concerns, abandonment, adoption and foster care histories, and the effects of natural or human-caused disasters. Her style is client-centered and strength-based. Sessions focus on what matters most to each person and on small, doable changes.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches, acceptance and commitment strategies, dialectical behavior skills, and emotionally focused work to reduce distress and improve everyday functioning. Sharon trained in psychology and clinical social work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later became licensed in Georgia as an LCSW.
She brings decades of practice experience to help people find clearer paths forward. Outside of practice Sharon is a parent of a young adult and values faith, friends, and family. She enjoys walking, hiking, eating out, and listening to music.
Her personal interests help her relate to practical life demands that often come up in sessions.
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
How Sharon’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take meaningful action even when uncomfortable feelings are present. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and navigating life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and solve practical problems. It often helps with depression, anxiety, sleep, and coping skills. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) attends to patterns in close relationships and the emotions that drive them, which can help with intimacy-related issues and communication concerns.Sharon treats finding the right approach as a shared process. She will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust plans based on a person’s goals and preferences. The aim is to build a match that feels useful and realistic for daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues; phone sessions work well when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult. Live chat or text messaging can be a shorter check-in or an option for people who prefer typing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on progress and practical tools.
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