About Sharleen
Sharleen King is a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia with 35 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder, and struggles with self-esteem. She approaches each person as the expert on their own story and aims to build on existing strengths.
Over a long career she has helped people take the first steps toward change.
Background and approach
She speaks plainly and offers steady support while clients identify goals and practical next steps. Sharleen emphasizes encouragement and empowerment rather than simple advice. In sessions she listens for what matters most and helps clients sort through options.
Conversations may cover coping skills for anxiety, ways to manage mood shifts, or strategies for rebuilding confidence after difficult experiences. She also addresses issues tied to adoption and foster care, aging, disaster response, and family of origin concerns. Sharleen brings experience with a wide range of life challenges including domestic violence, first responder issues, forgiveness, guilt, hoarding, infidelity, and midlife transitions.
She helps people weigh choices and try small changes that fit daily life. Therapy with her is collaborative. She helps people set realistic steps and notices progress along the way.
The work is practical, steady, and aimed at improving day-to-day functioning and emotional balance.
Practical approaches and online therapy options
Sharleen uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-world coping and mood management. One common approach she uses teaches concrete coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breathing exercises, pacing activities, and short behavioral changes that reduce immediate overwhelm. These techniques help when anxiety or stress get in the way of daily tasks.Another strand of her work addresses mood disorders and trauma by helping people identify patterns, track moods, and build routines that support stability. This approach includes problem-solving for difficult situations and gradual steps to rebuild confidence after trauma or loss.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. She will discuss options with each person and adjust methods to match their needs, goals, and preferences. Clients and therapist decide together which techniques to try and when to change course.
Online therapy offers practical advantages for many people. Video calls let the conversation feel most like an in-person visit, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short check-ins, and text-based messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain continuity of care across locations.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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