Sharon-Lin Harwood
Clinical psychologist supporting trauma recovery
About Sharon-Lin
Sharon-Lin Harwood is a clinical psychologist with three years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. She works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, or compassion fatigue. Her approach centres on understanding what has happened to someone rather than suggesting there is something wrong with them.
She commonly draws on cognitive behavioural methods to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns. She also uses eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing techniques for processing distressing memories and compassion-focused ideas to build self-kindness and emotional regulation.
Background and approach
These tools are adapted to each person’s needs and pace. Sharon-Lin has a particular interest in supporting healthcare professionals facing post-traumatic stress symptoms, moral injury and the emotional toll of caregiving. She also helps people with social anxiety and phobia and caregiver-related stress.
Her background gives her an understanding of the pressures that can accompany caring roles and clinical work. Sessions are practical and collaborative. She aims to help people develop skills they can use between sessions, such as grounding, breathing and manageable behavioural experiments.
Progress is tracked with small steps so goals feel achievable and realistic. People meet Sharon-Lin for structured conversations that feel calm and focused. She keeps plans clear and checks in regularly about what is or isn’t working.
The goal is to reduce distress and increase coping in everyday life.
What Sharon-Lin works with
Sessions & fees
Approaches that help with trauma and anxiety online
Sharon-Lin often uses cognitive behavioural methods to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test them with small behavioural experiments. This approach helps reduce anxiety and change patterns that keep problems going.She also works with eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing techniques to address distressing memories. This method focuses on easing the intensity of traumatic memories so they interfere less with daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals, preferences and how symptoms present, then agree which methods to try first. Plans are adjusted as progress is made and practical strategies are introduced at a comfortable pace.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared visual tools. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a shorter check-in when time is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for people who prefer to write, need flexible timing or want ongoing brief support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work and caring duties, and allow consistent contact regardless of location.
| 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
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- HCPC
- Languages
- English
