About Sharon
Sharon Peterson is a licensed clinical social worker who brings nine years of practical experience to therapy. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma, and life changes. Sharon also supports adults who mention attention differences such as ADHD as part of their concerns.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. Sessions focus on listening, clarifying what matters most, and building concrete skills that fit everyday life. She emphasizes improved communication and practical tools for coping with panic, social anxiety, and overwhelming stress.
Background and approach
Sharon has worked with people navigating grief, divorce, and long-term health challenges. She also supports those dealing with attachment issues, adoption and foster care questions, and caregiver strain. Her experience includes helping people manage codependency, body image struggles, and the emotional effects of chronic illness.
Faith can be a meaningful part of therapy when clients want to include it, and Sharon respects diverse backgrounds and life stories. She aims to create a respectful space where people feel heard and can try small changes between sessions. Progress is measured in clearer thinking, steadier routines, and better day-to-day coping.
People typically leave sessions with specific steps to practice and short-term goals to build on. Sharon works with adult clients in California and conducts sessions in English.
How evidence-based approaches fit online care
Sharon uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people make practical changes. One common approach she draws on teaches concrete coping skills for anxiety and panic, such as breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. These tactics aim to reduce overwhelm and build confidence in daily life.She also focuses on skills to improve communication and relationships, helping clients practice clearer boundaries, listening strategies, and ways to express needs without escalating conflict. Those tools are useful for people dealing with divorce, codependency, or repeated relationship patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Sharon works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the problems they bring to sessions. She adjusts techniques over time based on what is working and what feels realistic for everyday life.
Online therapy offers flexibility and multiple ways to connect. Video calls let people talk face to face when they want a deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or suit lower bandwidth situations. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, quick coping reminders, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California, Colorado, Texas
- Languages
- English
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