- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Solution-Focused work
About Sharon
Sharon Bailey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 30 years of experience. She practiced in military and civilian settings and has worked in academia, school counseling, life coaching, and clinical roles. Sharon focuses on practical problems like stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting strain, and anger.
Her background includes service as a combat medic, time in the Air Force Reserve, and a career as an Active Duty Air Force social worker before retiring from active duty. She has also run group work and critical incident debriefings. For eight years she maintained a private practice in Texas and relocated later to be nearer family.
Sharon uses a client-centered approach that keeps the client's goals front and center. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Existential ideas to help people change unhelpful patterns and make practical shifts. She also uses Emotional Freedom Technique, sometimes called tapping, alongside these approaches.
In sessions she works collaboratively and assigns homework to help ideas become action. Conversations are direct and practical. She helps people identify small, doable steps when anger, work stress, or old patterns get in the way.
Her additional interests include supporting first responders and people with veteran and armed forces backgrounds. Sharon offers services in English and accepts international clients. If you want clear tools and active work on issues such as anger, she frames therapy as a partnership focused on change.
How Sharon’s approaches translate to online work
Sharon frequently uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her practice. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the client's goals and priorities, with the therapist following the client's lead and supporting their choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thought and behavior patterns and uses practical exercises to change how people respond to triggers like anger or anxiety.She also draws on Solution-Focused and Narrative ideas when useful. Solution-Focused work concentrates on small, concrete steps toward a specific goal. Narrative approaches help people reframe troublesome stories they repeat about themselves and their relationships. These methods are chosen to match the issue at hand and the client's preferences. Finding the right mix is part of the process. Sharon treats approach selection as a collaborative task and will help clients decide which methods fit their goals and day-to-day life. Together they set targets and try techniques for a few sessions to see what helps.
The biography does not specify which session formats are offered, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and let people continue therapy when travel or relocation is involved. For problems like anger, CBT exercises, brief solution-focused tasks, and narrative reflection all adapt well to remote sessions when the format suits the client's schedule.
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Experience
30+ years
Listed in
Texas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career challenges, and related concerns.
Which therapeutic style does she use in sessions?
Her work is client-centered and practical. She combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative and Solution-Focused approaches and sometimes uses Emotional Freedom Technique.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 30 years of experience across military service, academia, school counseling, group work, and private practice.
What credential and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in Texas and practices from that state.
Can I have sessions in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Does she work with clients outside the United States?
International clients are accepted.
How are costs handled?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What is the first step to begin working together?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.