Sharon Shaw, BACP
10 years in practice
Sharon Shaw is a psychotherapist with a decade of clinical experience.
License and registration
- BACP
- 134439 · expires January 2027
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Sharon
Sharon Shaw is a psychotherapist with a decade of clinical experience. She holds the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy credential, BACP, and brings a warm, direct style to sessions. Sharon writes and reflects on personal growth and has authored books about self-awareness and healing.
She helps people work through stress, anxiety, depression, addictions and trauma. Sharon also supports people facing relationship pain, intimacy concerns, grief and issues around self-esteem.
Background and approach
Her wider focus includes parenting strain, ADHD, body image, and challenges linked to adoption, abandonment and ageing. Sharon blends conversational, client-centred work with cognitive approaches and attachment-informed thinking. She uses hypnotherapy as one of the tools in sessions alongside emotionally focused ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings.
Her approach aims to make difficult patterns clearer so people can try out different ways of coping. Sessions are described as warm and interactive, with a focus on respect, sensitivity and practical change. Sharon tailors conversations and plans to each person, avoiding limiting labels and encouraging curiosity about past survival strategies.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process where people learn to understand and shift restrictive thoughts. Her background includes ten years practising as a psychotherapist and ten years of personal therapy that inform her work. Sharon’s writing on inner work reflects that journey and she invites people who want to explore change to take the next step.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Sharon lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Sharon names
- Hypnotherapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches meet online care
Hypnotherapy is used as a practical tool to help calm racing thoughts and access helpful inner resources. It can be offered alongside talking work to support change in habits, sleep and anxiety patterns.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. This approach helps people understand patterns in close relationships and build healthier emotional responses.
Client-Centred Therapy places the client's experience at the heart of the work. The therapist follows your pace, reflects what you bring and helps you find your own solutions to problems like low self-esteem, grief or life transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the journey. Sharon will work collaboratively to identify which methods suit your needs and goals, and she adapts the plan as you progress. That means trying ideas out together and changing direction if something does not fit.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you use body language and full conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a shorter break, and live chat or text-based messaging can provide quick check-ins and ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family commitments and different time zones while keeping the therapeutic relationship central.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems can be brought to therapy?
Sharon supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and addictions. She also works with relationship pain, grief, self-esteem and many related concerns listed on her profile.
What is Sharon's therapy style like?
Her style is warm, authentic and interactive. Sessions focus on respectful dialogue, practical change and understanding repetitive patterns.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has ten years working as a psychotherapist and ten years of personal therapy experience that inform her approach.
What professional credential does she hold and where is she based?
Sharon holds the BACP credential and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
International clients are accepted, enabling people in other countries to arrange sessions according to scheduling and time zones.
What formats do sessions use and how are they delivered?
Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Different formats suit different needs such as shorter check-ins or not using video.
How do fees and scheduling work?
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