Sharon Shaw
Compassionate relational counsellor with practical tools
About Sharon
Sharon Shaw is a counsellor who blends practical talking therapy with a focus on relationships and emotional patterns. She holds a BACP credential and brings ten years of clinical experience to her work. Sharon writes plainly and listens closely to help people name hard feelings and find clearer ways forward.
She helps people understand how early attachments and current relationships shape behaviour. Sessions aim to make confusing patterns easier to see and change.
Background and approach
Sharon uses gentle challenge and reflective conversation rather than labels or judgement. Her practice covers stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression and grief. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, intimacy issues, self-esteem, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting pressures and the impact of caregiving.
LGBT concerns, ADHD and work-related stress are included among her focus areas. Sharon draws on Attachment-Based methods, Client-Centred approaches, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy, with hypnotherapy as an additional option. She adapts the work to each person's needs and prefers an interactive, warm style.
Therapy is collaborative and paced to what feels manageable. Sharon has written about her own journey and aims to help people build self-awareness so they can move on from survival patterns. She works from the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English.
The emphasis in sessions is on practical steps and clearer self-understanding rather than labels. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions. The process is straightforward and designed to fit around each person’s life and commitments.
What Sharon works with
How Sharon works
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Sessions & fees
How relational approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape feelings and reactions. Online work uses conversation to map patterns and try different ways of relating that feel safer and more effective. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. It suits people wanting clear exercises, coping tools and a step-by-step plan for anxiety, low mood or unhelpful habits. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and move through strong emotions that get in the way of connection and wellbeing.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with a person about their goals, what feels helpful and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try methods that match the person’s needs and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to different session styles. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be shorter or fit into a work break, and live chat or text messaging support ongoing check-ins and quick reflections. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the chosen therapeutic methods to guide change.
| 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
