Sharen Robertson
Compassionate practical support for life’s toughest moments
About Sharen
Sharen Robertson helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, addictions and relationship difficulties. She supports those coping with grief, parenting strain, sleeping and eating problems, career stress, ADHD and the ripple effects of abuse. Sharen uses practical skills and straightforward conversation to help people find steady ground during hard times.
She takes a collaborative, down-to-earth approach. Sessions focus on what matters now and on small, doable steps to feel better.
Background and approach
Sharen draws on a blend of therapy styles to match each person’s needs rather than one fixed method. With 14 years of experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), Sharen has worked extensively with people affected by complex trauma, domestic abuse, substance misuse and sudden loss.
She also supports people navigating neurodiversity-related challenges such as ADHD and autism. Her work often combines practical tools for managing anxiety and mood with attention to how attachment and relationships shape daily life. This can include building coping strategies, improving emotional regulation and exploring patterns that repeat in relationships.
Sharen aims to provide a calm, respectful space where people can speak honestly and try out new ways of coping. She encourages clients to set clear goals and to practise small changes between sessions. Many clients find this steady, skills-focused rhythm makes therapy feel manageable and relevant.
Across her practice she offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Sessions follow a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and international clients are accepted.
What Sharen works with
How Sharen works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and to act in line with what matters most. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and teaches practical techniques to change them, which can help with panic, depression and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can help people improve closeness and trust in relationships.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and try methods that suit the person’s preferences and needs. Together they adapt exercises and pacing so therapy feels useful and doable.
Online sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, offering a lot of practical flexibility. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and subtle cues, phone sessions can fit a short break at work or require less bandwidth, and messaging options let people check in between sessions or use shorter, focused exchanges. These formats make it easier to work around schedules and keep continuity when life is busy.
| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 14 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
