About Sharan
Sharan Thiara is a counsellor who focuses on helping people dealing with anxiety and related struggles. She offers a calm and non-judgemental presence to people who are feeling overwhelmed. Her way of working aims to make starting therapy feel gentler and more manageable.
Sharan uses practical, down-to-earth conversations to help people make sense of what they are feeling. She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy to shape sessions.
Background and approach
This means sessions can include looking at unhelpful thinking patterns, noticing difficult emotions without getting stuck in them, and exploring relationship patterns that affect day-to-day life. Her practice is informed by seven years of clinical experience and a BACP accreditation. She describes a human-centred and integrative style that brings different methods together to match a person's needs.
Sharan aims to keep sessions steady and grounded, offering clear ways to cope rather than vague theory. The first meeting is treated as a simple, practical step. She listens for what matters most, and works with people to set goals that feel achievable.
This can be short-term coping help or longer exploration of deeper issues such as trauma, addictions or complicated grief. Sharan supports people across a wide range of concerns including stress, depression, relationship difficulties, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. She also works with issues like dissociation, codependency, abandonment and recovery from domestic violence or substance problems.
Her approach aims to meet each person where they are and help them find clearer ways forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Sharan commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them and helps people commit to actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours link together and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sharan will discuss options with each person and choose methods that fit their goals and daily life. That conversation is collaborative and can change as needs shift over time.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make attendance easier. Video suits fuller conversations and visual connection, phone calls can be quicker and need less bandwidth, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These formats aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- 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
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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