About Sharla
Sharla "Charlie" Harrison is a licensed professional counselor with 22 years of experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or big life changes. Her approach is calm and direct, aimed at helping people find practical ways to cope and feel more grounded.
Charlie focuses on problems like depression, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, anger, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people facing relationship strain, divorce or separation, blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and cancer-related stress.
Background and approach
Many clients come wanting clearer communication skills and better emotional balance. In sessions she combines client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. That means she listens first, then helps clients try small behavior changes, new ways of thinking, and attention exercises to reduce distress.
She also uses emotionally-focused ideas to improve how people relate to those they care about. Charlie aims to make therapy feel like a steady, problem-solving conversation. She works at the client’s pace and focuses on goals the person names.
Over time she helps clients build coping skills, improve relationships, and reduce the hold of painful memories. She practices in Missouri and offers care in English. People who want to start can expect straightforward scheduling and a focus on what they want to change next.
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Client-centered therapy is about listening and following the client’s lead. The therapist creates space for people to tell their story and then helps name goals and next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. Emotionally-focused therapy looks at how people connect with others and helps change interaction patterns to improve closeness and trust.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your goals, what has helped before, and what feels possible now. Together you’ll try methods that fit your needs and adjust gradually if something isn’t working well.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make attending easier. Video is useful for deeper conversations and real-time feedback, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can be used for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep regular momentum toward change.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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