About Nupur
Nupur Sharma offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career uncertainty, or depression. She speaks plainly and listens carefully to help clients find small, manageable steps forward. She is listed as LCPC, which means she holds the licensed clinical professional counselor credential in Illinois.
Sharma creates a welcoming space where people can talk through thoughts and feelings without judgment. Sessions focus on building everyday skills that reduce distress and improve decision making.
Background and approach
She often helps clients unstick themselves from worry and negative self-talk so they can try new behaviors. Her work draws on approaches that teach skills and clarify values. Some sessions focus on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of responding.
Other sessions concentrate on noticing what matters most to the client and making choices that match those values. She also pays attention to early relationship patterns and how they shape current struggles. That can help when issues like attachment, loneliness, or communication problems come up.
Practical tools for handling panic, mood swings, or chronic health challenges are offered alongside deeper conversations about meaning and purpose. Sharma has 16 years of professional experience and works from Illinois. She conducts sessions in English and uses a straightforward, collaborative style.
If you want steady, thoughtful guidance for everyday problems and life changes, she helps people take the next step.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions. It focuses on identifying personal values and taking small steps that reflect those values, which can reduce aimless worry and increase motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches clear skills for changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It suits issues like anxiety, panic attacks, mood concerns, and problem-solving around work or daily routines.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether a skills-based plan, values work, or attention to relationship patterns is the best next step, and they adjust that plan as needed.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, and live chat or text-based messaging lets people check in between appointments or reach out when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while fitting it around work, errands, and daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English