Sharon Belshaw
Trauma-informed therapist with practical focus
About Sharon
Sharon Belshaw helps people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma and relationship problems. She also supports those dealing with depression, grief, addiction and difficulties with intimacy. Her work covers life changes, career stress, sleep and eating issues, and compassion fatigue among carers.
Sharon draws on 15 years of experience in a range of settings. These include GP practices, educational services, a brain injury centre, corporate workplaces and the third sector. She has also worked in clinical leadership and now leads an organisation as CEO.
Background and approach
Her approach is warm and flexible. She adapts sessions around childcare, caring responsibilities and work commitments so therapy can fit into a busy life. Sessions are practical and focused on what the person wants to address right now.
She uses a mix of methods to suit different needs, including cognitive behavioural therapy, trauma-focused work, eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing, and hypnotherapy. Sharon keeps up with continuing professional development to align practice with current research. Sharon holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She has received a Health and Social Care award and has been published in a national journal. Alongside therapy she has provided management consultations and coaching for workplace and life issues.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches for trauma and everyday challenges online
Sharon commonly uses cognitive behavioural therapy and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing to help people work through distress. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and is useful for anxiety, mood problems and unhelpful coping patterns. Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing, EMDR, involves structured processing of traumatic memories to reduce their emotional impact and is often used for trauma-related symptoms.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Sharon will discuss what feels most relevant and practical, and she adapts therapy to match the person’s goals and preferences. That collaboration helps ensure sessions are tailored, whether the focus is symptom relief, processing difficult memories or changing daily habits.
Online work is offered via video, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people keep visual contact for fuller conversations, phone sessions can suit lower bandwidth or those who prefer not to be on camera, live chat allows a quicker check-in, and messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and other commitments while keeping the therapeutic focus.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
