About Sharon
Sharon O'Hara is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 33 years of experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She also supports those facing relationship and intimacy challenges, including sex and process addictions, and people coping with major life changes.
She uses straightforward conversation and practical strategies in sessions. Sharon adapts her approach to each person's situation instead of following a single formula. She focuses on clear goals like improving communication, managing compulsive behavior, rebuilding self-esteem, or finding a renewed sense of purpose.
Background and approach
Her background includes decades of clinical work in California. That experience shapes how she listens and what she offers when someone is stuck or unsure how to move forward. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every interaction.
Sharon helps people untangle guilt, shame, and impulsivity while also addressing isolation or caregiver stress. She offers support for people dealing with divorce, midlife transitions, men’s issues, and non-monogamous relationship concerns. The aim is to find realistic, sustainable steps that fit daily life.
Sessions can include talk, problem-solving, and strategies for managing urges or anxiety in the moment. She encourages gradual change and celebrates small wins. The tone is direct but warm, with a focus on practical progress and regaining control.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions help
Sharon draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One approach she uses centers on managing anxiety and compulsive behaviors with step-by-step strategies to reduce urges and build new habits. This helps people regain control over impulses and decrease the power of repetitive thoughts.Another focus is on improving relationships and intimacy through clearer communication and boundary work. Sessions often include role practice and specific communication tools to help people say what they need and listen more effectively. These skills support recovery from issues like betrayal, divorce, or non-monogamous relationship challenges.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Sharon will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps. She encourages feedback and collaboration so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexibility for today’s schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging provide quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work breaks, caregiver duties, or travel while keeping focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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