About Sharon
Sharon Sumler is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) based in Michigan with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship and family challenges, and ADHD. Sharon listens with empathy and aims to make conversations clear and useful for everyday life.
Her approach is practical and person-centered. She draws on client-centered methods to create a respectful space where people can talk through what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try different behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness practices help with emotion regulation and staying present. Sharon has worked across many concerns including grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, intimacy-related issues, anger, self esteem, career stress, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses issues like attachment, codependency, blended family dynamics, and adoption or foster care matters. Her range reflects two decades of helping people navigate life changes. Sessions focus on practical steps and small changes that add up.
Sharon uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change and to set realistic goals. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Sharon works in English and practices from Michigan.
People who want a steady, listening presence and clear tools for daily life may find her style a good match.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the client's priorities. In sessions Sharon creates space for people to say what matters and then helps shape the work around those goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors to find small changes that reduce distress. It is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and coping with life changes by giving practical strategies to try between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. Mindfulness elements help people notice what they are feeling in the moment so they can choose how to respond rather than react.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sharon will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust tactics as progress is made.
Online therapy can make regular work on goals easier to sustain. Video calls let the conversation feel face-to-face while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief, frequent contacts that help keep momentum between longer sessions. These options support flexible scheduling and ongoing skill practice without needing to travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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