About Sharon
Sharon Bowen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and ADHD-related challenges. She has ten years of experience in social work and brings a steady, caring presence to sessions. Sharon focuses on meeting clients where they are and moving forward at a comfortable pace.
Sharon uses practical, down-to-earth methods so conversations stay clear and focused. She listens without judgment and helps clients name what matters most.
Background and approach
Together clients set goals and try small, doable steps to make daily life feel more manageable. Her background includes roles as an advocate, case manager, and therapist working with families and children. That range of experience informs how she helps people navigate parenting stress, career transitions, and coping with major life changes.
Sharon also supports people dealing with trauma, depression, bipolar concerns, and compassion fatigue. Sessions incorporate techniques from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, EMDR, and motivational interviewing as appropriate. Sharon adapts these approaches to each person’s needs rather than using one fixed method.
She emphasizes collaboration and practical strategies clients can use between sessions. Sharon practices in North Carolina and works in English. She encourages people to ask questions about the process and to move at a pace that feels right.
Her goal is to create a respectful space where clients can talk through what’s hard and take steps toward feeling better.
How Sharon’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the relationship and what matters to the client. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people identify their own goals. This approach is useful when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort through feelings.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Sharon uses CBT to help clients test unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that improve daily routines and mood. It is often helpful for anxiety, depression, sleep troubles, and ADHD-related challenges.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a method used to process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity. When appropriate, Sharon may introduce EMDR techniques to help people who are coping with past trauma or strong emotional reactions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Sharon works collaboratively with each person to decide which methods to try first and adjusts plans as needs and preferences become clearer. She explains options and checks in about what is helping and what is not.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, from video calls to phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can fit into a short break, live chat works for quicker check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing brief contact. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Colorado, Florida, California
- Languages
- English
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