About Sharon
Sharon Parke is a counsellor with 17 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She helps people who are dealing with stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, family conflict, grief, relationship difficulties and career pressures. She also supports those coping with life changes and concerns around intimacy and self-esteem.
Sharon works from the view that each person knows their story best. She looks for strengths clients already have and helps them apply those strengths to current difficulties.
Background and approach
The first sessions usually focus on what matters most to the client and on simple steps to reduce immediate distress. Her style is practical and straightforward. Sharon listens carefully and asks questions that clarify patterns and unhelpful cycles.
Together with the client she identifies small, realistic changes to try between sessions and checks how they feel in everyday life. Over her career she has supported people with a wide range of concerns, including workplace issues, compassion fatigue, sexual assault and abuse, domestic violence and multicultural or discrimination-related stress.
She also addresses fertility worries, control issues, guilt and shame, and forgiveness work when these come up. Sessions are offered in English and take place online via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Sharon’s approach aims to make therapy practical and manageable for people juggling busy lives.
If someone is ready to begin, they can use the Start Therapy button to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
How Sharon adapts therapeutic approaches for online work
Sharon uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical changes and emotional processing. One common approach she uses helps people spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavioural experiments to reduce anxiety and stress. This method aims to make daily life feel more manageable by testing new ways of thinking and acting.She also supports trauma processing through careful, paced conversation and grounding strategies. These techniques help a person feel steadier in the moment and learn skills to manage intrusive thoughts and flashbacks when they occur.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sharon will talk with clients about their goals and preferences, then suggest which methods to try first. Together they review what’s helping and adjust the plan as needed to make therapy feel useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is useful for deeper work and visual connection, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflection and flexibility for people who need to fit sessions into busy schedules. These options make therapy more accessible and easier to fit around work, family and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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