Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Depression
How Sharon works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Years in practice
- 30
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Sharon
Sharon Bailey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of experience. She brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions and focuses on helping people manage stress, anger, addictions, and life changes. Sharon’s practice emphasizes client-centered care.
She listens first, then helps people set clear goals and try simple steps between sessions. She often uses cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and solution-focused techniques to build immediate coping strategies.
Background and approach
Her background includes long service in the military as a combat medic and social worker, including time in the Air Force and the reserves. That experience informs her work with people facing first responder and veteran-related concerns, and she often draws on practical lessons learned in high-pressure settings. Sharon mixes several therapy styles to fit each person’s needs.
She uses narrative methods to help people reframe their stories and existential ideas to address meaning and life transitions. Sessions include conversation, targeted exercises, and brief assignments to try between meetings. She practices from Texas and provides services in English.
Sharon accepts international clients and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexible, ongoing support.
What Sharon works with
Everything Sharon lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Sharon's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- First responder issues
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Approaches Sharon lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Practical approaches for online therapy and real-life change
Sharon commonly draws on client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening and helping people set their own goals. This approach is useful when someone needs a steady, respectful space to work through strong emotions and decide what matters most.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT to identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, anger, sleep problems, and everyday coping skills because it teaches specific steps people can practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach tends to be collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit their style, and adjust over time based on what helps. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to keep using and which to change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let conversations feel close to an in-person meeting, phone sessions can work when bandwidth or visual focus is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for quick check-ins or brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep working on goals from different locations.
Questions people ask about Sharon
What concerns does Sharon commonly help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, anger, addictions, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, and career or life-change challenges.
What kind of therapy style should I expect?
Sessions emphasize client-centered care with practical tools from cognitive behavioral and solution-focused approaches to set goals and try new strategies between meetings.
How much experience does this therapist have?
Sharon has 30 years of experience, including clinical social work in military and civilian settings and eight years in independent practice.
What are Sharon's credentials and location?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in Texas and practices from Texas.
Are sessions available in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can I work with her from another country?
International clients are accepted, so people outside the U.S. can participate in sessions.
What session formats are offered?
Sharon provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs.
How do fees and scheduling work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time and scheduling follows the platform process.