About Sharon
Sharon Woodard is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience helping people navigate strong emotions and life changes. She practices as an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor and brings a calm, steady presence to difficult conversations. Sharon focuses on common struggles like anxiety, depression, grief, and stress.
She also helps people dealing with trauma and abuse, mood disorders, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are practical and focused on what matters to the person sitting across from her.
Background and approach
Her work often centers on building self-love and reducing isolation. Sharon supports people coping with workplace pressure, social anxiety, and struggles with shame or control. She pays attention to how these patterns affect relationships and daily life.
Sharon uses approaches that help people notice thoughts, practice new skills, and process painful memories. She draws on client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, mindfulness, and trauma-focused work. The goal is to leave each session with clearer steps and more emotional balance.
Sharon practices in North Carolina and has experience with a wide range of concerns, including eating issues, bipolar disorder, panic attacks, and post-traumatic stress. She aims to help each person build resilience and practical coping tools they can use between sessions.
How Sharon Integrates Therapy Approaches Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and making the conversation about the person’s goals and feelings. It helps people feel heard and guides the pace of work based on what they name as most important.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and build better habits for anxiety, depression, and stress.
Trauma-focused therapy helps people process painful events and reduce their ongoing impact. It uses careful, step-by-step work to address traumatic memories and their effects on day-to-day functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Sharon collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in often and adjusts strategies when something is not working.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls let people connect face-to-face for deeper work, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while adapting to work, family, and daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Virginia, Washington
- Languages
- English