Sharon Horwood
Empathetic counsellor with personal insight
About Sharon
Sharon Horwood is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who brings three years of professional experience and personal insight to her practice. She draws on her own lived experience, including recovery after a life-changing brain injury, to relate to people facing difficult challenges. Sharon works with individuals on stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, anger and motivation, and relationship concerns.
She also supports people dealing with grief, major life changes, career questions and issues around parenting.
Background and approach
Sharon believes each person knows their own story best. She uses a client-centred approach that focuses on listening and helping people find their own solutions. Sessions are conversational and paced to suit the person’s needs.
The emphasis is on building confidence, practical coping skills and clearer next steps. Her background includes supporting people with trauma and abuse, mood disorders, panic, self-harm, attachment difficulties and long-term health conditions such as chronic pain or traumatic brain injury. Sharon also offers coaching around life purpose, career moves and rebuilding motivation.
Sharon offers video calls and phone sessions, and uses messaging to complete assessments and arrange bookings. She aims to make therapy approachable and flexible for people fitting sessions around work or family life. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that suits them.
What Sharon works with
How Sharon works
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Sessions & fees
How client-centred therapy works online
Client-centred therapy is based on listening, acceptance and helping people find their own answers. Online this means the counsellor focuses on understanding a person’s experience and reflecting it back so they can make clearer choices; it is often helpful for anxiety, low self-esteem and relationship concerns.Sharon’s practice emphasises a collaborative process. She will work with each person to decide which way of working feels most useful, checking in about goals, pace and preferred communication. Finding the right approach is part of the work together rather than a fixed decision made at the start.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or be easier if bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins and flexible contact between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family and day-to-day life.
| 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
- Anger management
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
