About Sharonda
Sharonda Ocean is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She offers calm, straightforward support for everyday struggles like low self-esteem, depression, anger, and coping with life changes. She uses clear conversation and practical tools so people can take small steps forward.
With eight years as an LCSW, she draws on a mix of talk-based and skills-focused methods. Her work often looks at how early relationships shape current reactions.
Background and approach
She pays attention to patterns like attachment issues, codependency, abandonment concerns, and communication problems. Clients also turn to her for help after trauma, domestic violence, or difficult separations. She has experience with more complex mood and behavior concerns such as bipolar disorder, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, dissociation, and personality-related patterns like avoidant or antisocial traits.
She also supports people facing compassion fatigue and the stress of unexpected disasters. In sessions she blends approaches that focus on values, present-moment coping, and behavioral change. That can mean practicing grounding and mindfulness skills, naming unhelpful thoughts, or trying new ways of connecting with others.
The emphasis is on practical strategies that fit daily life. Her work takes place with adults in North Carolina and is delivered in plain language. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexible check-ins and ongoing support.
How her approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps toward them. It helps people who feel stuck by combining mindful noticing with committed action to move toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches concrete skills for changing unhelpful patterns. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy examines patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current responses; it helps people rebuild safer ways of relating.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She works with each person to match methods to their goals and daily life. That might mean trying mindfulness practices one week, then focusing on behavior experiments the next, all based on client feedback.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues for relational work. Phone calls can be easier when internet bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support brief updates, homework check-ins, or more frequent touchpoints between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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