About Sharla
Sharla "Charlie" Harrison is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 22 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She focuses on practical steps clients can use day to day. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, oriented toward clear goals and steady progress.
Charlie often supports people recovering from trauma and abuse, and those facing challenges with self-esteem, depression, anger, or compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how past relationships shape current feelings, including issues tied to adoption, attachment, or abandonment. Sessions are aimed at reducing overwhelming emotions and improving everyday functioning. Her approach blends client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and emotionally-focused work.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing also appear in sessions when they fit a person’s needs. Conversations move between exploring underlying experience and trying small, practical changes outside of sessions. Charlie draws on two decades of clinical experience to tailor strategies to each person's situation.
She helps people strengthen communication, manage intense emotions, and rebuild a sense of agency after loss or disruption. The focus is on steps clients can use between sessions to feel steadier. People who reach out can expect a respectful, goal-oriented process.
Charlie aims to partner with clients to set clear goals, test new ways of responding, and track progress over time.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on hearing each person's perspective and building a trusting working relationship. It helps when someone needs a place to talk through feelings and be heard without judgment.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing everyday stress by practicing new skills between sessions.
Emotionally-focused therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name strong emotions and the patterns they create in relationships. That approach can be helpful for improving communication and repairing trust in close connections.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what works best for the client. That collaborative process helps match tools to individual needs and preferences.
Online therapy with Charlie can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits a person’s schedule and comfort. Video lets people see nonverbal cues and do longer sessions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a brief check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer quick access and make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy day.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English