About Sharon
Sharon Dockery is a licensed marriage and family therapist in South Carolina who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship concerns. She brings ten years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on building a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can speak honestly about what’s on their mind.
She uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people build coping skills and manage strong emotions. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with attention to everyday challenges like sleep, motivation, and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Sharon aims to help clients develop tools they can use between sessions. Sharon often works with people facing life changes such as separation, parenting stress, career transitions, and grief. She also addresses issues tied to trauma, addiction, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and intimacy concerns.
When relevant, she helps clients sort through family-of-origin patterns, blended family challenges, and communication or trust problems. In session she listens carefully, reflects what she hears, and suggests small experiments to try outside therapy. Clients can expect straightforward feedback and collaboratively set goals.
Her approach balances emotional support with practical steps to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Sharon provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Getting started involves completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment based on availability.
Approaches that guide online care
Sharon draws on well-supported therapeutic techniques that focus on learning skills and changing patterns. One approach emphasizes teaching coping strategies for anxiety and stress, helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and try manageable behavior changes to reduce worry and improve sleep. Another approach focuses on relationship and communication skills, helping clients practice clearer boundaries, better listening, and ways to repair trust and connection.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Sharon partners with each person to identify goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan as needed. She encourages small experiments between sessions so people can see what works in everyday life and bring those results back to shape ongoing work.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues during conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or busy schedules while working with licensed professionals and therapists who focus on concrete skills and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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