About Sharleen
Sharleen King is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 35 years of professional experience in Virginia. She offers calm, steady support for people facing stress, anxiety, mood disorders like bipolar disorder and depression, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She works from the view that each person knows their own story best.
She looks for strengths and small, practical steps clients can use right away. Sessions focus on clear goals and making changes that fit day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Her background includes long experience across a range of concerns, including self-esteem, motivation, and issues tied to family of origin. She has also worked with people dealing with adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric concerns, disaster recovery, first responder stress, and multicultural issues. Sharleen emphasizes a respectful, empowering approach.
She listens, helps identify patterns, and supports people as they try new ways of coping. She encourages realistic pacing so progress is steady and manageable. People choose her for guidance through big transitions such as midlife shifts, relationship betrayals, or questions of life purpose.
She also helps with practical problems like hoarding behaviors, grief around infidelity, and guilt or shame that get in the way of daily life. Sessions are conducted in English and available to international clients. Her practice offers flexible online formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Sharleen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques aimed at helping people change unhelpful patterns and manage strong emotions. One common approach focuses on learning concrete coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations to reduce avoidance and increase confidence. Another approach emphasizes mood regulation and behavior change for depression and bipolar-related challenges, working on daily routines, activity scheduling, and problem-solving to lift motivation and stabilize mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Sharleen works with each person to match techniques to their goals, needs, and preferences, adjusting methods as progress unfolds and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow deeper, face-to-face conversation when visual connection helps. Phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth or no camera is preferred. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing support possible between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules, work breaks, or times when a shorter touchpoint is most useful.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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