About Sharon
Sharon Peterson is a licensed clinical social worker with nine years of experience helping people cope with anxiety and stress. She brings a calm, practical style to sessions and focuses on making therapy feel manageable for busy lives. Sharon listens for what matters most and helps people take simple steps toward feeling more steady.
She uses compassionate collaboration to address relationship struggles and the effects of trauma. Conversations aim to make patterns clearer and to build small, usable skills for everyday life.
Background and approach
When anxiety shows up as panic or social worry, she helps people learn ways to reduce intensity and regain control. Sharon has worked with people facing grief, divorce, and big life transitions. She also supports those dealing with neurodevelopmental differences, attachment concerns, chronic health conditions, and caregiver stress.
The work often includes improving communication, reducing codependent patterns, and developing routines that make days easier. Faith can be part of the work when clients want that included. Sharon aims to respect diverse backgrounds and personal values while helping people find what fits for them.
Her goal is to help clients build resilience and clearer next steps, not to rush change. Sessions are practical and grounded. Sharon combines listening with concrete strategies so people leave with things to try between meetings.
Over time the aim is steadier routines, better communication, and more confidence managing anxiety and life’s changes.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Sharon uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and symptom relief. One approach helps people learn skills to manage anxiety and panic by teaching breathing, grounding, and stepwise exposure to feared situations. This method aims to lower intensity and increase confidence in everyday settings.Another approach centers on processing traumatic experiences and reducing their ongoing impact. Sessions focus on telling the story at a pace that feels manageable, identifying unhelpful patterns, and building safer ways to relate and cope. This work often helps with sleep, concentration, and reducing triggers.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Sharon will discuss goals and preferences and adapt techniques to match what a client needs. She encourages trying strategies and checking in to see what helps most over time.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversations and teaching skills, phone sessions fit when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can work for quick check-ins or short updates. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or health needs while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California, Colorado, Texas
- Languages
- English
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