About Sharon
Sharon Link is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addiction, ADHD, grief, and relationship or parenting challenges. Her approach is warm and interactive and she treats each person with respect and compassion.
Sharon centers sessions on the client’s goals. She offers practical tools and teaches how to use them day-to-day. Clients steer the pace and focus while she suggests strategies drawn from several approaches.
Background and approach
Her background includes long experience helping people after emotional or physical trauma and guiding those with substance or gambling problems. She has worked with adults across the lifespan as well as children and adolescents. That variety shapes a flexible, down-to-earth style.
In sessions she blends client-centered work with cognitive-behavioral techniques and mindfulness. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy and EMDR when appropriate. These methods are used to reduce overwhelming emotions, rebuild coping skills, and address past hurts.
Sharon practices in Missouri and holds LCSW credentials in Missouri and Wyoming. She offers several remote session formats to fit different needs and accepts international clients. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their calendar.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and perspective. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients notice options and make choices that fit their life. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior and offers concrete exercises to change unhelpful habits and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) teaches emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and communication skills to manage intense feelings and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sharon will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that seem likely to fit and adjust over time based on what feels useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text messaging work for quick check-ins, shorter exchanges, or when someone needs flexible timing during a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Wyoming
- Languages
- English
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