About Sharon
Sharon Belshaw is a counsellor who supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, depression and relationship concerns. She draws on 15 years of experience across health, education and third-sector settings. Sharon aims to make sessions practical and down to earth.
Her approach is warm and adaptable to clients' life demands. She has worked in GP practices, educational settings, a brain injury centre and corporate environments. Sharon has also held clinical leadership roles and currently serves as a CEO in an organisation.
Background and approach
That background informs how she balances clinical thinking with organisational awareness. Sharon uses a mix of approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) and hypnotherapy. She trained in person-centred therapy as well as CBT and EMDR.
In sessions she helps people name patterns, try different ways of thinking, and practice new coping steps between meetings. She keeps up to date with continuing professional development and follows research to shape her practice. Sharon has a Health and Social Care award and has had an article published in a national journal.
She also provides coaching and management consultation alongside individual counselling. Sessions can be scheduled to suit working parents or carers, with flexibility around timings. Sharon works in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English.
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
How these approaches work online
Sharon draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR to help people address anxiety and trauma. CBT focuses on finding unhelpful thoughts and testing different ways of thinking and behaving to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. EMDR uses guided bilateral stimulation alongside focused recall to help process distressing memories and reduce their emotional charge.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Sharon will talk through your concerns, goals and preferences and suggest options that fit your needs. Together you can try an approach and adjust it over time if something else seems more helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video works well when visual cues help the conversation. Phone calls can be a lower-bandwidth option for a focused check-in. Live chat or messaging can suit shorter check-ins, written reflections, or when scheduling makes real-time sessions harder to arrange. Registered or accredited professionals can use these formats to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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