About Sharon
Sharon Matharu is a counsellor with four years of professional experience. She holds NCPS and practises in the United Kingdom. Sharon speaks English and Punjabi and aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable.
Sharon draws on person-centred ideas to build a calm, non-judgemental space where people can say what matters to them. She listens for the issues that cause the most distress and helps clients name practical goals.
How Sharon works
Conversations are straightforward and focused on what each person needs right now. Her work includes support for stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression. She also helps people facing relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, trauma and abuse, and concerns linked to eating or body image.
Career worries, anger and coping with life changes are also within her areas of focus. Sharon uses tools from cognitive behavioural therapy and solution-focused approaches alongside client-centred work. That means sessions can include looking at unhelpful thinking, trying small changes, and planning steps that move things forward.
She adapts sessions to fit each person rather than following a rigid routine. Practical matters such as parenting strain, blended family issues, communication problems, codependency and ageing matters are also addressed in sessions. Sharon works with LGBT concerns, attachment and abandonment worries, and supports people affected by domestic violence or family of origin problems.
Sessions run via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Sharon asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule appointments according to her availability.
Sharon lists 4 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English, Punjabi |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Sharon blends client-centred work with cognitive behavioural therapy to support people online. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening without judgement and helping people find their own solutions; it is useful when someone needs a caring space to talk through feelings. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and helps people try small changes to reduce anxiety or low mood.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Sharon works collaboratively to identify goals, test what helps, and adjust the way she works to fit a person's needs and preferences. She discusses options openly so the therapeutic plan can shift as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow a fuller conversation, phone sessions can fit around busy days and use less bandwidth, live chat works for quicker check-ins and messaging suits people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into everyday life while still focusing on practical progress.
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