About Sharon
Sharon Shaw uses a blend of attachment-based, client-centred and cognitive behavioural approaches to help people make sense of painful patterns. She brings ten years of psychotherapy experience and a BACP credential to her work. Sharon writes plainly and speaks with warmth, aiming to make therapy a practical space for change.
Sharon spent a decade in personal therapy and in clinical practice, which informs her focus on relational dynamics and recovery from abuse.
How Sharon works
She helps people dealing with trauma and abuse, narcissistic behaviour, infidelity, addiction, anxiety and depression. Her background includes work with issues around intimacy, sexuality, grief and parenting strain. Her style is authentic and interactive.
Sessions tend to be conversational and goal-focused, with attention to feelings and how relationships shape current behaviour. She avoids shorthand labels and instead helps people map triggers, survival responses and coping habits. Sharon draws on cognitive behavioural methods to spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Attachment-based ideas help uncover how early connections influence present relationships. Client-centred listening keeps the pace and priorities set by the person in front of her. She also uses hypnotherapy and emotionally-focused strategies when these fit a person’s needs.
Treatment plans are tailored to each person and regularly reviewed. The aim is clearer self-understanding and practical choices that reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning.
Sharon lists 9 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
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- 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 | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Sharon's approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape today's feelings and interactions, helping people notice patterns that affect trust and closeness. This can be useful for grief, abandonment issues and problems with intimacy.Client-centred therapy focuses on listening without judgement and following the person's pace. It helps people find their own answers and build self-compassion, which suits many presentations including anxiety and low self-esteem.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) targets the links between thoughts, feelings and actions, offering practical exercises to change unhelpful habits. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems and addictive behaviours.
Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Sharon collaborates with each person to decide which approaches to use and adjusts methods as goals change. This means therapy can shift from reflective listening to more active skills work when needed.
Online sessions can take place by video, phone, live chat or messaging, giving flexibility around time and location. Video calls support face-to-face feeling, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messages allow ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and maintain consistency over time.
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