Sharan Thiara
Calm, practical support for emotional recovery
About Sharan
Sharan Thiara offers calm, non-judgemental support for people facing stress, anxiety, addiction and emotional pain. She works in a grounded, gentle way and helps people feel steadier while they sort through difficult feelings. Her approach is approachable and practical for someone who is worried and unsure where to start.
With seven years of practice, Sharan draws on a mix of therapy styles rather than a single technique. She uses ideas from cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people notice unhelpful thought patterns and try small, manageable changes.
Background and approach
She also brings attachment-based and emotionally-focused work to better understand how relationships affect emotional life. Sharan has a BACP credential, which indicates registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She is based in the United Kingdom and holds experience supporting people with trauma, depression, relationship issues and grief.
Her background includes work on addictions, eating and sleeping difficulties, and compassion fatigue. Sessions can cover practical coping skills, emotion regulation tools and conversational reflection about past experiences. She can help with communication and commitment concerns, codependency, anger and self-esteem issues.
The focus is on small, realistic steps that fit into everyday life. Sharan offers online formats in English and accepts international clients. She works with people dealing with career stresses, parenting strain, divorces and separation, and those coping with major life changes.
The aim is to help people feel more able to move forward.
What Sharan works with
How Sharan works
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Sessions & fees
How Sharan’s approaches translate to online therapy
Sharan commonly uses cognitive behavioural therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people understand and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. CBT focuses on spotting thought patterns and testing small behavioural changes to ease symptoms like anxiety or low mood. ACT concentrates on values and accepting difficult feelings while taking action towards a meaningful life.Attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas also feature in her work to make sense of relational patterns and strong emotions. These approaches help when past relationship experiences affect how someone reacts now, and they aim to build greater emotional awareness and healthier ways of relating.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and together they will try methods that suit the person’s needs. This lets the work adapt as things change over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video suits longer sessions where visual connection helps, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging work well for shorter check-ins or for people who prefer written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and access support from different locations.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
