About Sharon
Sharon Blanchard is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas with 30 years of experience. She centers sessions on listening closely and helping people make sense of difficult feelings. Her style is down-to-earth and respectful, and she lets each person set the pace for how much they want to explore faith or personal values.
Sharon has a long history working in K-12 school settings and teaching counseling at the graduate level.
Background and approach
That work gave her a lot of experience helping parents with challenging children and teens. She also supports young adults who are figuring out careers, relationships, and identity issues. Many clients come to her for help with anxiety, depression, parenting struggles, relationship problems, grief, and trauma.
She also works with people facing life transitions, midlife questions, and career decisions. Sharon pays attention to practical steps people can try between sessions. Her approach draws on client-centered methods that focus on the person’s own goals.
She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to identify unhelpful thinking and mindfulness practices to reduce stress. Narrative techniques and motivational interviewing are used when helpful to clarify values and next steps. Sharon aims to create a calm, straightforward space where clients can sort through what’s weighing on them.
She encourages small experiments and honest conversation. Her goal is to help people return to life feeling clearer and better able to handle everyday demands.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person and their goals. A therapist listens closely, reflects what they hear, and helps the person decide the direction of work. This approach is helpful for people who want a caring, respectful space to figure things out.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, mood, and actions interact. It uses simple exercises to spot unhelpful thinking and try different responses. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, panic, and stress by teaching concrete skills to manage symptoms.
Mindfulness therapy brings attention to the present moment through short practices. It can reduce the grip of worry and help with stress, low mood, and impulsivity. These approaches are often blended depending on what a person needs.
Finding the right method is part of the process and will be collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then try approaches that fit their situation. That ongoing conversation guides the plan and any adjustments over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face-to-face when a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is a concern or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, tracking progress, and staying connected between sessions. These options let clients fit therapy into busy schedules and choose what works best for them.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English