About Sharon
Sharon O'Hara is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 33 years of experience practicing in California. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by offering steady, respectful support and practical steps toward change. Her approach is calm and direct, and she adapts the conversation to what each person needs in the moment.
She commonly helps people manage stress and anxiety and works with a range of addictive behaviors including process addictions like porn, exercise, and gambling.
How Sharon works
She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related concerns, self-esteem, motivation, and the emotional fallout from life transitions. Many clients seek help with communication problems, isolation, and feelings of guilt or shame. Sharon brings decades of clinical work to issues such as caregiving stress, divorce and separation, midlife questions, and men’s concerns.
She also supports people navigating non-monogamous or polyamorous relationships and those coping with obsessive or compulsive patterns. Post-traumatic stress and problems with impulse control are within her scope of practice. In sessions she listens without judgment and works with clients to build realistic, measurable steps.
Plans are shaped by the client’s goals, values, and pace rather than a one-size-fits-all script. Progress is tracked in small, practical ways so change feels doable. Sharon describes the work as collaborative and empowering.
She encourages people to try different approaches and adjusts strategies as needed to keep therapy useful and relevant.
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
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 33 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Sharon uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques aimed at clear, practical change. One approach focuses on identifying unhelpful patterns in thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with more helpful actions; this is useful for anxiety, compulsive behaviors, and motivation problems. Another approach concentrates on relationship and intimacy concerns by improving communication and building safer, clearer ways to connect. This helps with trust, sexual concerns, and conflicts over boundaries.Finding the right fit is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals and try approaches that match the client's needs and preferences. Adjustments are made over time so the work stays relevant and effective.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video is helpful for deeper conversations that benefit from seeing one another. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a good option for a focused check-in. Live chat or text messaging is useful for brief updates, real-time coping strategies, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to build consistency and keep momentum between sessions.
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