About Sharon
Sharon Crane is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida with ten years of practice. She speaks English and Portuguese and draws on lived experience from growing up in South America to inform her perspective. Sharon helps people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, mood shifts, grief, and relationship challenges.
She aims to offer steady, respectful support in plain language. Sharon meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that can make life easier.
Background and approach
She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to identify unhelpful thought patterns and try different behaviors. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen closely and follow each person’s pace. Her work includes addressing anger, panic and panic attacks, self-esteem concerns, and difficulties with communication or control.
She also supports people facing major life changes, parenting strains, career stress, and trauma-related issues. Sharon is familiar with mood disorders and has experience with bipolar concerns. Sessions can be conversational and skills-focused.
Sharon aims to help people develop tools for coping, reduce isolation, and rebuild routines after loss or upheaval. She describes her style as empathetic and practical. Sharon’s bilingual background helps when cultural experience affects relationships and emotions.
She has worked with diverse populations and offers therapy in both English and Portuguese. Her Florida license is LMHC.
How her approaches work online and in sessions
Sharon uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep conversations focused on each person’s experience and values. This means sessions often start with open listening and follow the client’s pace, which can help people feel heard when they are overwhelmed by stress or relationship issues.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep anxiety and low mood going. CBT sessions tend to include short, practical exercises and homework that can be done between appointments to reduce panic, manage mood swings, or change unhelpful habits.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sharon talks with clients about their goals and preferences, then adjusts methods as needed. She works together with people to choose techniques that fit their lifestyle and the problems they want to solve.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and text-based messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work on anxiety, trauma-related symptoms, and life changes from wherever a person is located.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
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