About Sharon
Dr. Sharon Belhamel greets people who feel stuck, anxious, or overwhelmed. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 20 years of clinical experience and a calm, practical approach.
She aims to help visitors make real changes that fit their lives. Sharon focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She also supports people coping with relationship strain, career pressure, grief, addiction, and challenges around identity and intimacy.
Background and approach
She listens first, then offers clear options for moving forward. Her sessions mix straightforward talk with hands-on skills. She draws from cognitive behavioral methods to challenge unhelpful thinking.
She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people choose values-based actions. She also leans on attachment-focused work to improve how people relate to others. Over two decades she has seen many kinds of concerns, including ADHD, trauma and abuse, caregiver stress, body image, chronic illness, and blended family dynamics.
Her experience includes supporting people navigating adoption and foster care issues, abandonment, and the stresses of aging. Sharon offers sessions in English and works with clients in Georgia as well as international clients. Her background as an LMFT guides a systems-aware view of problems while keeping the focus on practical steps clients can take now.
People who prefer direct, compassionate guidance may find her approach a good fit. She invites prospective clients to consider what matters most to them and to try a few different tools until they find what helps.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Dr. Belhamel uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying concrete strategies to change patterns of behavior and mood. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, stress, and many day-to-day problems.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that align with their values. ACT can be useful for coping with life changes, chronic stress, and recurring worries. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to improve how people connect and respond in relationships.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit the issue, and adjust based on what helps. Clients and therapist work together to pick tools and check progress over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation across distance. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone needs flexible timing. These options aim to make scheduling easier and to match the format to the task at hand.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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