About Sharon
Sharon (Shonnie) Brown is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage anxiety, stress, relationship problems, and life transitions. She speaks plainly and works in a direct, compassionate way. Sharon draws on three decades of clinical experience to guide people through practical next steps.
She trained at UC Berkeley and earned a master’s degree in counseling psychology from JFK University. Sharon has more than 30 years as an LMFT in California and has led groups on separation, divorce, infidelity, co-parenting, and social anxiety.
Background and approach
That background shapes how she supports people facing big changes. Her sessions focus on developing coping skills, building self-compassion, and improving communication. She often uses goal setting, mindfulness exercises, and writing practices when helpful.
Sharon pays attention to how early attachment and family patterns affect current struggles. Sharon works with common concerns such as toxic workplace stress, major life transitions, parenting strain, and grief. She also helps people facing issues around intimacy, self-esteem, control, and money.
Her approach blends practical tools with attention to emotional experience. In therapy she aims to help people tolerate difficult feelings and learn ways to soothe themselves. She offers straightforward guidance alongside exercises clients can use between sessions.
Sharon encourages small, steady steps toward change and often integrates writing as a healing tool.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current emotional responses and helps people notice patterns in close relationships so they can change repeating cycles. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience, helping them feel heard while they find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the work and happens together with the therapist. Sharon listens to your goals, tries different techniques, and adjusts the plan to fit your needs and preferences. The initial sessions are often a time to test what helps and to set concrete goals for therapy.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let you work face to face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits your day. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing reflections, brief coaching, or written exercises like journaling prompts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep building skills between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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