About Sharon
Sharon Jenkins is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people change the patterns that hold them back. She welcomes clients who are dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, addictions, trauma, relationship struggles, grief, or concerns about self-esteem and intimacy. Sharon uses practical steps and steady encouragement so people can start feeling more capable and in control.
She draws on 25 years of experience in social work and clinical practice.
Background and approach
Her style is client-centered and strengths-based, which means she listens carefully and builds on what already works for each person. Sessions are collaborative and aimed at clear goals the client helps set. Sharon integrates cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and ACT ideas to help people commit to values-based action.
She also uses tools from dialectical behavior approaches and emotionally-focused work when relationships or strong emotions are central concerns. These methods are selected to match the problem at hand and the client’s preferences. Sharon earned degrees in psychology and clinical social work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later became licensed as an LCSW in Georgia.
She brings decades of hands-on experience supporting people through life changes, chronic stress, caregiving strain, and co-occurring concerns like ADHD or chronic illness. Outside of work she values faith, family, and time outdoors. She is a parent of a young adult veteran and shares her home with two dogs and a cat.
Sharon aims to be genuine, encouraging, and calm while helping people move toward their goals.
Approach-driven therapy that fits your life online
Sharon blends several practical approaches to help clients make clear, doable changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting and changing thought and behavior patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression, or phobias. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, helps people clarify their values and take action even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is a joint process. Sharon will talk through your goals and try methods that match your needs and preferences. She adjusts techniques based on how you respond, so the plan evolves with your progress rather than being fixed from the start.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make ongoing work easier to fit into life. Video is useful for deeper work and reading nonverbal signals. Phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, skill practice, and brief reflections between longer sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling, continuity during life transitions, and different ways to engage with therapy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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)
- 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
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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