About Shara
Shara Biggs is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee who uses practical talk and evidence-informed methods to help people manage anxiety, depression, addictions, and related concerns. She focuses on building everyday coping skills and clearer thinking so clients can move toward goals that matter to them. Shara adapts sessions to the person in front of her.
She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based techniques to shape short-term plans and longer-term strategies.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on what feels most useful right now, like reducing avoidance, improving routines, or changing thought patterns. Her background includes work with trauma, stress, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and challenges around parenting, career decisions, and life transitions. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, body image, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue.
These concerns are addressed with straightforward exercises and conversational problem solving. Shara emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and practical kindness during sessions. She partners with clients to set clear steps they can try between appointments, such as behavioral experiments, communication skills practice, or tracking mood and sleep.
Progress is evaluated together and plans are adjusted as needed. People meet Shara for help with specific problems or for broader coaching through major life changes. Her approach aims to make therapy understandable and usable in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people try new ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try approaches that fit, and adjust plans based on how a client responds. Clients and the therapist collaborate to pick tools and exercises that feel doable and relevant to everyday life.
Online therapy offers a range of formats to match practical needs. Video calls let people use visual cues and more interactive exercises, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, exercise assignments, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or health schedules and to keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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