Sharon Boyd
Compassionate practical therapy for everyday struggles
About Sharon
Sharon Boyd uses a person-centred approach that focuses on listening and tailoring sessions to each individual. She blends practical techniques with a warm, respectful style. Sharon aims to make talking about difficult things feel manageable and direct.
She works in English and accepts international clients. With 13 years of experience, Sharon helps people facing stress and anxiety, depression, grief, LGBT-related concerns, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also supports people dealing with attachment difficulties, issues tied to adoption and foster care, and challenges such as body image or caregiver stress.
Background and approach
Her work covers a broad range of co-morbidity and dissociation concerns as well. Sharon draws on a mix of approaches to meet different needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients focus on values and action. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy offers skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Sessions are shaped around each person's goals.
Sharon aims to build practical coping skills, improve communication, and reduce overwhelming feelings. She avoids jargon and keeps explanations straightforward so people can use what they learn between sessions. Her stated registrations are BACP and NCPS, which are shown as credentials.
People come away with clearer next steps and tools to manage everyday pressures. To begin, clients follow the platform sign-up and matching process and arrange sessions that suit their schedules.
What Sharon works with
How Sharon works
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Listed by Sharon among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Sharon uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people notice and change patterns of thinking and behaviour that cause distress. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood and problems with everyday coping. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy which focuses on values and taking meaningful action even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. ACT can help people move toward things they care about rather than getting stuck in avoidance.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Sharon will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then tailor the approach together with each person. This means she adapts techniques over time as needs change, keeping the process collaborative and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different circumstances. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and messaging allows shorter updates between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel while keeping focus on progress and skills practice.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 13 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
