About Shara
Shara Biggs is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Tennessee. She focuses on helping people manage addictions, trauma, depression, anxiety, and self-esteem concerns. Shara aims to treat each person with respect and compassion while tailoring sessions to individual needs.
Shara uses straightforward talk and practical tools to address day-to-day struggles. She draws on methods like cognitive behavioral approaches and acceptance-based techniques to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different ways of coping.
Background and approach
Work can include skills for emotion regulation, building motivation, and addressing relationship and intimacy concerns. She also brings strategies from attachment-based and dialectical approaches when relationships and intense emotions are central. That may involve looking at how early connections shape current patterns and practicing new ways to relate and set boundaries.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to what each person can manage. Shara supports people navigating grief, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and major life changes. She helps with practical problems such as sleep, eating concerns, and workplace stress as well as deeper issues like abandonment, dissociation, or co-occurring mood concerns.
Goals are set together and adjusted as progress is made. People work with Shara through a mix of conversation, behavioral experiments, and skill practice. She encourages small steps that build confidence over time.
The approach is direct but warm, aimed at making therapy useful in everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches for online care and practical change
Shara commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going. CBT often includes goal-setting, experimenting with new behaviors, and simple homework between sessions to build new habits.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is another approach she uses to help people sort out what matters to them and take action despite difficult thoughts or feelings. That can be useful for anxiety, depression, and chronic stress by shifting focus toward values-based choices.
Attachment-based ideas may also appear when relationship patterns or early losses affect current life. This helps people name patterns in how they relate and try new ways of connecting or setting boundaries.
Shara treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals and try methods that fit their preferences and life. Adjustments are made if something isn't working so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls let therapy feel close to an in-person session, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other schedules.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English