About Sharonda

Sharonda Ocean is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship struggles, trauma, and changes in life. She works in North Carolina and uses practical talk and steady support to help clients take small, useful steps forward.

Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making the work feel manageable on a phone or during a busy week. Sharonda draws on eight years of clinical experience to guide conversations about feeling overwhelmed, low self-esteem, anger, bipolar moods, and compassion fatigue.

Background and approach

She pays attention to how past attachments and family patterns show up now. Sessions focus on what is happening in daily life and on skills that can be put into practice right away. Her approach includes acceptance and commitment ideas to help people commit to values-based action.

She also uses attachment-based work to look at relationship patterns and client-centered methods to keep the client’s goals central. Cognitive behavioral tools and dialectical behavior strategies are used when skill building and emotional regulation are needed. Sharonda aims to make therapy collaborative.

Clients choose goals and she helps design small steps to reach them. The tone in sessions is compassionate and direct, with an emphasis on gaining tools that fit real life. She offers sessions in English and provides online formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.

People who want to get started complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on therapist availability.

How online approaches and therapy methods fit together

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people identify what matters most to them and take steps toward those values even when emotions are strong. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and making steady life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they affect current connections and trust; it can help with relationship struggles, abandonment feelings, and family of origin issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to change feelings and behaviors, which is helpful for anxiety, depression, and building new routines.

Finding the right mix of methods is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest approaches that match those needs. Clients and therapist try things, check what helps, and adjust the plan together so the work stays practical and relevant.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual connection, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief skill practice between sessions. These options give flexibility for regular work on goals without long commutes or scheduling strain.

Questions people ask

What concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship struggles, trauma and related issues like low self-esteem and anger.
What is her general approach in therapy?
Sessions are collaborative and practical, focusing on values, coping skills, and changing patterns that cause problems in daily life.
What is her professional background?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eight years of clinical experience supporting people through mood issues, trauma, and life transitions.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds an LCSW license in North Carolina and practices from that state.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats does she use?
Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

What this therapist works with

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Experience
8 years
Licensed
North Carolina
Languages
English

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