Sharon Shaw, BACP

Sharon Shaw is a psychotherapist with a BACP registration and ten years of clinical experience. She writes plainly and speaks directly in sessions, helping people untangle stuck emotions and restrictive thoughts. Her style is warm, authentic and interactive, and she focuses on building self-awareness so clients can understand their survival responses and make different choices.

Sharon has worked with people facing trauma, sexual and emotional abuse, narcissistic behaviour, infidelity and depression. She also helps with stress, anxiety, addictions, grief and relationship concerns, and supports people with issues around intimacy, self-esteem and career. Her wider interests include caregiver stress, ageing and geriatric issues, attachment and adoption and foster care matters.

Her therapeutic work draws on attachment-based ideas, client-centred listening and cognitive behavioural techniques. She also uses emotionally-focused elements and hypnotherapy when appropriate, and adapts sessions to each person’s needs. Conversations are practical and aimed at making daily life feel more manageable.

Sharon has written about her personal and professional journey and plans to publish books that encourage self-reflection. She values sensitivity and respect, and avoids applying limiting labels. Her aim is to help people learn, grow and change through steady, collaborative work.

Sharon works from the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English. People who are ready to begin are invited to follow the site’s Start Therapy process to be matched and schedule sessions.

How therapy approaches guide online work

Sharon draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds affect current relationships; this helps when people are struggling with trust, abandonment or communication patterns. She uses client-centred listening to prioritise the person’s experience and create space for their story to be heard and understood. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to spot thinking patterns and try practical ways to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours.

Finding the right approach is a joint process. Sharon will work with each person to identify goals and preferences, and then adapt methods as therapy progresses. The plan is shaped together so sessions match what feels most useful and realistic for day-to-day life.

The therapist’s original profile does not specify which online formats she offers, so please confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around work and family life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people join from elsewhere in the UK or overseas, as international clients are accepted, while still focusing on the same collaborative, practical therapeutic work.