About Sharon
Sharon Sumler is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) based in Michigan who focuses on supporting people through stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and addictive behaviors. She brings 20 years of social work experience to sessions and aims to make therapy accessible and straightforward for those feeling overwhelmed. Sharon uses a plain, empathetic style in sessions.
She listens first, then helps clients name the problems that matter most. Her work often centers on coping skills for anger, mood shifts, and life transitions.
How Sharon works
She also helps people struggling with parenting, intimacy concerns, and career stress. Her approach draws on client-centered methods that prioritize each person's goals and perspective. She blends techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and she uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to build emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Motivational interviewing helps when people feel stuck about change. Sharon also uses mindfulness practices to help clients calm their thoughts and increase present-moment awareness. She addresses complex concerns such as trauma, attachment difficulties, codependency, and the effects of caregiver stress.
She works with mood conditions including depression and bipolar disorder, and she supports people managing ADHD-related challenges. Sessions are offered in English and held online through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Sharon describes therapy as a collaborative process where small steps add up over time.
She encourages prospective clients to start with a short matching questionnaire to find a workable schedule.
Sharon lists 8 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
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Using clear approaches in online therapy
Sharon often combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Client-centered work focuses on understanding the person's perspective and building goals together, while CBT offers step-by-step strategies to change thinking patterns and reduce symptoms.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness. Those skills are useful for managing intense emotions, relationship conflicts, and recurring patterns that cause stress. Sharon treats the choice of methods as collaborative and will work with clients to find what feels most useful for their goals.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options help clients fit therapy into busy lives while accessing consistent support from a licensed professional.
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