About Sharon
Sharon Sumler is a Licensed Master Social Worker with 20 years of experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety along with a wide range of concerns like depression, addictions, grief, and relationship issues. Sharon aims to create a calm, listening space where people can talk through what feels overwhelming and take small steps forward.
She frames difficult moments as chances to learn new ways of coping. Sharon draws on practical methods to help people identify unhelpful patterns and try different responses.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and goal-directed when needed, or more reflective when someone wants to process feelings. Her background spans many areas that can complicate daily life, such as parenting strain, caregiver stress, and work-related burnout. Sharon also addresses trauma, intimacy concerns, ADHD, and mood challenges including bipolar disorder.
She notices how these issues affect everyday routines and relationships, and helps people find manageable strategies. Sharon uses a mix of conversational and skills-based approaches. She leans on client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral techniques to reframe thoughts, dialectical skills for emotional regulation, and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity.
Motivational interviewing tools are used when people want help with change and staying on track. Based in Michigan, Sharon works in English and brings two decades of social work experience to sessions. Her style is warm and direct, focused on practical steps that fit each person’s life.
She helps people move from feeling stuck to having clearer options and small, sustainable changes.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Sharon often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening closely and following the person’s pace. This approach helps when someone needs an empathetic space to talk through stress, anxiety, grief, or relationship concerns.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people spot and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes because it breaks problems into concrete steps and small experiments.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are part of her toolkit too, offering practical techniques for managing intense emotions and improving communication. These skills are helpful for dealing with anger, impulsivity, and relationship strain.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Sharon will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit their situation. If something doesn’t work, she adapts the plan so the work feels useful and doable.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well when visual cues matter and a longer session is wanted. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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