About Sharon
Sharon Gurr is a counsellor who draws on client-centred and cognitive approaches to help people who feel stuck or overwhelmed. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and attachment-based ideas to support people dealing with anxiety, stress and phobias. Sharon is a BACP member and works from the United Kingdom.
She keeps sessions simple and practical. Conversations focus on what matters now and what small steps could help.
Background and approach
Techniques may include examining unhelpful thinking, practising acceptance of difficult feelings, and building new everyday routines. Her work covers a broad range of concerns, including depression, relationship strain, grief, addictions and parenting stress. Sharon also supports people coping with trauma, chronic illness, eating or sleeping problems, and anger or self-esteem issues.
Sharon draws on attachment ideas when relationships or early experiences affect wellbeing. She also uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. The overall aim is to help people make sense of their past and move toward clearer goals.
With five years of documented experience, Sharon offers practical help for life transitions and ongoing problems. The tone in sessions is warm and direct, with an emphasis on small, achievable changes. If someone wants a straightforward, calm approach to managing fears, stress or difficult feelings, Sharon may be a good match.
How therapeutic approaches meet online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them and then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, phobias and situations that feel stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviours; it is often used for anxiety, depression and sleep or eating concerns.The choice of approach is part of the work. Sharon will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest a mix of ACT, CBT or attachment-informed ideas. That decision is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses to suit what is helping most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can fit a short check-in or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Text and live chat suit brief updates, reflections between sessions, or people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to maintain regular appointments and to fit therapy around work or family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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