About Sharon
Dr. Sharon Young is a Pennsylvania psychologist with 22 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are coping with relationship stress, trauma, grief, mood and anxiety problems, and struggles with intimacy or addiction.
She aims to make therapy practical and understandable for someone worried and looking for support. Dr. Young uses a warm, collaborative approach and centers each session on the person's experience.
She listens closely and helps people set clear goals for change.
How Sharon works
Sessions often combine talking about feelings with tools to manage thoughts and behavior. Her background includes work in community mental health, hospital inpatient units, and university counseling centers. That variety has shaped how she works with people facing complicated or long-standing concerns.
She has helped with mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, anxiety and panic, grief, and stress related to life transitions. Dr. Young draws on multiple therapy styles to meet each person's needs.
She uses Attachment-Based, Client-Centered, Emotionally-Focused, Cognitive Behavioral, and Existential approaches to address issues like attachment difficulties, communication problems, codependency, and family of origin concerns. The focus is on practical steps and better understanding of patterns that keep problems going. She holds the credential PA Psychologist PS016165 and practices in Pennsylvania.
Sessions are offered in English and provided through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect people to her practice.
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.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | PA Psychologist |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches adapt to online work
Dr. Young often blends Attachment-Based Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how past caregiving relationships shape current trust and closeness, which helps people understand patterns in relationships and intimacy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and offers practical exercises to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That collaborative process guides whether sessions lean more toward exploring relationship histories, building emotional awareness, or practicing skills for daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and visual cues, phone can require less bandwidth, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text messaging supports shorter, ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while still making steady progress.
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