Sharon Facey
Compassionate counsellor for trauma and life change
About Sharon
Sharon Facey is a counsellor with 12 years' experience and membership of the BACP, the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists. She offers short and long-term work that focuses on practical goals and emotional recovery. Sharon speaks English and works with people across the United Kingdom and internationally.
She uses a person-centred way of working that puts the client's concerns at the heart of each session. That means listening closely, reflecting back what matters, and helping clients find their own steps forward.
Background and approach
Sharon also draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to help change unhelpful thoughts and patterns that keep anxiety, low mood and stress going. Her background includes long experience supporting women and girls affected by domestic and sexual violence, and people who have experienced childhood sexual abuse. This has shaped a sensitive approach to trauma, safety and rebuilding trust in everyday life.
Sessions commonly focus on issues such as anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy questions, parenting strain, grief, self-esteem and career concerns. Sharon also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiving stress, dissociation, ADHD and other complex life challenges. Therapy looks at what is getting in the way now and practical ways to change it.
Clients can expect a calm, compassionate presence and a straightforward focus on goals. Sharon combines insight-oriented thinking with hands-on tools so people can manage strong feelings and move towards clearer choices. Work can be short-term problem solving or longer-term exploration, depending on what the person needs.
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Sessions & fees
How Sharon's approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on understanding the person's experience and building a trusting relationship. It involves open listening, reflecting feelings, and supporting people to make their own decisions about what they want to change. This approach helps with low mood, self-esteem and life direction concerns.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions. Sessions include practical strategies to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build new coping habits. CBT can be useful for anxiety, stress, sleep difficulties and managing mood swings.
Trauma-focused work pays attention to how past hurt affects current reactions and relationships. It uses gradual, stabilising steps and grounding techniques to reduce overwhelming feelings and restore everyday functioning. This approach is suited to trauma, abuse and dissociation-related problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sharon will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels helpful. She will suggest ways to combine methods and review progress so the plan can change as needs evolve.
Online therapy through video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging gives practical flexibility. Video lets people read facial expressions and share visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a quick check-in between sessions and messaging supports ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and daily life.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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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- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
