About Sharon
Sharon Cyrus-Savary is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the fallout from trauma. She meets individuals where they are and focuses on practical steps that build confidence and motivation.
Sharon writes in a direct, encouraging way that aims to make starting therapy feel manageable for a worried parent or a busy person. Sharon emphasizes that each person knows their life best.
Background and approach
She helps people identify strengths they already have and use those strengths to tackle current problems. Sessions are oriented toward real-life changes like improving self-esteem, handling workplace strain, or sorting family conflict. Her background includes more than a decade working with mood disorders and issues tied to attachment, shame, and communication.
That experience shapes a straightforward approach - talk through what’s hard, try practical strategies, and adjust based on how things go. Sharon also works with concerns tied to money and life purpose, and she supports women facing identity and self-love challenges. She aims to break problems into small steps so progress is clearer and less overwhelming.
Therapy with Sharon often includes goal-setting and checking what works between sessions. She encourages people to notice small gains and to be patient with setbacks. The focus is steady improvement rather than quick fixes.
How evidence-based tools work online
Sharon uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on concrete change and emotional processing. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood; it helps with stress, worry, and low motivation. Another useful method concentrates on addressing trauma and shame by safely naming difficult memories, building coping skills, and slowly increasing tolerance for strong emotions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Sharon works with each person to decide what methods feel most useful based on their goals, comfort level, and day-to-day needs. She checks in and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility that can fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be shorter or easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or to have a brief session without being on camera. These formats help people keep continuity of care while balancing work, family, and other demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English