About Sharhonda
Sharhonda Givens is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Oklahoma who centers therapy on the person in front of her. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma and life changes. Sessions aim to help people feel steadier and make clear next steps for their lives.
She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to create an accepting, respectful space. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Mindfulness practices are used to build calm and attention in difficult moments.
Background and approach
Her background as a Black woman of faith informs how she listens and the cultural awareness she brings to sessions. She pays attention to how identity, values, and past experiences shape emotions and choices. This perspective guides how she frames goals and conversations in therapy.
Sharhonda works with issues like attachment and abandonment, caregiver stress, communication problems, control issues, and forgiveness. She also supports people dealing with guilt, shame, impulsivity, loneliness, life purpose, midlife concerns, self-love, sexuality, and women’s issues. In practical terms, she helps clients build coping skills, improve communication, and move toward clearer purpose.
She prefers collaborative work - setting goals together and tracking small changes over time.
Using practical approaches in online therapy
Sharhonda uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in ways that translate well to remote work. Client-Centered Therapy means she centers conversations on the client's perspective, listens closely, and helps people find their own solutions. This approach is helpful when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort feelings and values.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to see what works. It often includes simple exercises and homework that can be shared and reviewed during video or text sessions, making progress easy to track between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit the person's needs, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That collaborative process helps shape short-term goals and practical steps.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio-only check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, family, and busy schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English